In Other Words: A Memoir
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
Published:
Books on Tape 2016
Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her.
Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for “a trial by fire, a sort of baptism” into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write—initially in her journal—solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.
Read by the Author, in both English and the original Italian
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her.
Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for “a trial by fire, a sort of baptism” into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write—initially in her journal—solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.
Read by the Author, in both English and the original Italian
Formats
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
Works on MP3 Players, PCs, and Macs. Some mobile devices may require an application to be installed.
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Copies In Prospector
Loading Prospector Copies...
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Jhumpa Lahiri. (2016). In Other Words: A Memoir. Unabridged Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jhumpa Lahiri. 2016. In Other Words: A Memoir. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words: A Memoir. Books on Tape, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jhumpa Lahiri. In Other Words: A Memoir. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2016.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 1 |
Lafayette Public Library | 0 | 0 |
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
dafa6ea7-075b-da0d-ec31-0ac0ebb7cb0f
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Feb 24, 2016 18:39:28
Date Updated:
Feb 22, 2024 18:39:43
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 21, 2024 03:58:25
Last Metadata Change:
Feb 22, 2024 18:39:43
Last Availability Check:
Apr 21, 2024 03:58:27
Last Availability Change:
Apr 21, 2024 00:22:38
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 26, 2024 01:37:11
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/86F/845/34/{86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/86F/845/34/{86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780399566219
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780399566233
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780399566219
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780399566233
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- edition
- Unabridged
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Jhumpa Lahiri
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- In Other Words
- dateAdded
- 2016-02-25T03:49:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=114&titleID=2246170
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Front Range Downloadable Library (CO)
- id: 1100
- sortTitle
- In Other Words A Memoir
- crossRefId
- 2246170
- subtitle
- A Memoir
- id
- 86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914
- starRating
- 3.3
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 06:37:28
- fileName: InOtherWords_9780399566219_2246170
- partCount: 6
- fileSize: 198773710
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780399566219
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780399566233
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 2/9/2016
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2246170-InOtherWords.mp3
- source: From the book
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=86f84534-0f44-4645-aea2-3509c522e914&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 06:53:32
- fileName: InOtherWords-61925
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 198498008
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780399566219
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780399566233
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 2/9/2016
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2246170-InOtherWords.mp3
- source: From the book
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=86f84534-0f44-4645-aea2-3509c522e914&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Lahiri, Jhumpa
- bioText: JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole.
ANN GOLDSTEIN is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Primo Levi, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Baricco, and is the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and awards from the Italian Foreign Ministry and from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. - name: Jhumpa Lahiri
- role: Translator
- fileAs: Goldstein, Ann
- name: Ann Goldstein
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Lahiri, Jhumpa
- bioText: JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole.
ANN GOLDSTEIN is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Primo Levi, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Baricco, and is the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and awards from the Italian Foreign Ministry and from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. - name: Jhumpa Lahiri
- imprint
- Random House Audio
- publishDate
- 2016-02-09T00:00:00-05:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- In Other Words
- fullDescription
- From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her.
Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for “a trial by fire, a sort of baptism” into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write—initially in her journal—solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.
Read by the Author, in both English and the original Italian - popularity
- 710
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BvwAAAA25/products/86f84534-0f44-4645-aea2-3509c522e914/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 86f84534-0f44-4645-aea2-3509c522e914
- starRating
- 3.3
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/86F/845/34/{86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/86F/845/34/{86F84534-0F44-4645-AEA2-3509C522E914}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Biography & Autobiography
- value: Foreign Language Study
- value: Travel
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 02/09/2016
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
- From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her.
Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for “a trial by fire, a sort of baptism” into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write—initially in her journal—solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian,... - sortTitle
- In Other Words A Memoir
- crossRefId
- 2246170
- subtitle
- A Memoir
- publisher
- Books on Tape
- bisacCodes
- code: BIO026000
- description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
- code: FOR013000
- description: Foreign Language Study / Italian
- code: TRV009110
- description: Travel / Europe / Italy
More Details
Street Date:
02/09/2016
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780399566233