Book review "In Other Words" by Jhumpa Lahiri
“What does a word mean? And a life? in the end, it seems to me, the same thing. Just as a word can have many dimensions, many nuances, great complexity, so, too, can a person, a life. Language is the mirror, the principal metaphor. Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person is boundless, ineffable.” – Jhumpa Lahiri In Other Words An award winning novelist of English language wants to travel the uncharted sea of mastering a foreign language. Jhumpa Lahiri in her latest (and Non-fiction debut) shares her experiences in learning Italian. With a series of metaphors this creator of The Interpreter of Maladies describes how learning Italian has been her long standing wish come true. In these 203 pages, she tells us the story of her metamorphosis from an American Born Bengali Indian to an Established Italian Author. She describes in detail how the seed of the desire to learn Italian was sowed, and how many struggles she had to go through to learn the l