5/22/2023 0 Comments In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri![]() ![]() Let us know how you get on over on our Discord community. While this exercise is written with fiction in mind, it might also be helpful for writers of poetry and non-fiction in generating some notes towards a new, short pieces. Here we share a writing exercise inspired by Lahiri’s use of metaphor and with the aim of generating material for a new short story. ![]() Throughout the book, Lahiri uses a series of powerful metaphors to explore this changing relationship with language. It traces the highs and lows of this process, from the dizzying feeling of falling in love with Italian, to the abrupt disappointment of feeling excluded from it. In Other Words mixes memoir and fiction to tell the story of Lahiri’s experience of learning a new language. We hope you’ll join us in reading the book and joining the conversation – find out more about all the ways that you can get involved. Over June and July our NCW Book Club is In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. ![]()
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