Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 384 Publisher: Mariner Books an eye-opening and courageous memoir that Explores what Learning a new language can teach the U.S. about Distant Worlds Ultimately ourselves. After miraculously surviving a serious illness. Katherine Rich found herself at an impasse in her career as a magazine editor. She spontaneously accepted a freelance writing assignment to go to India. where she found herself thunderstruck by the place and the language. and before she knew it she was on her way to Udaipur . a city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. in order to learn Hindi. Rich documents her experiences-ranging from the bizarre to the frightening to the unexpectedly exhilarating-using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective not only on India . but on the radical way the country and the language itself were changing her. Fascinated ...
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"Dreaming in Hindi is the verbally and emotionally dazzling story of Rich's passage to India, where she tried to master an intricate foreign tongue--and became fluent in the language of human possibility." --O, The Oprah Magazine, "Ten Terrific Reads of 2009"
"Riveting and sharply observed." --Wall Street Journal "A work that will inevitably be compared to Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love . . . [Dreaming in Hindi] traces the far-flung adventures of a thoughtful, soul-searching, single woman from New York." --New York Times "Rich is a charming raconteur." --San Francisco Chronicle"Riveting and sharply observed." Wall Street Journal
"Verbally and emotionally dazzling ... [Rich] became fluent in the language of human possibility." O, the Oprah Magazine, "10 Top Reads of 2009" In this mesmerizing chronicle journalist Katherine Russell Rich plunges into new language and new life in India. By turns funny, frightening and deeply exhilarating, Dreaming in Hindi details the extraordinary year Rich spent learning to speak Hindi in the ancient city of Udaipur. The language continually led her into unexpected far corners: She taught art at a school for the deaf, judged a Michael Jackson impersonators contest, watched as political tension erupted into violence, and by the end, found herself completely transformed. Seamlessly combining stories from her personal journey with wide-ranging reporting on the science of language acquisition, Dreaming in Hindi offers a thought-provoking account of what learning a new tongue can teach us about distant worlds and, ultimately, about ourselves. "Rich is a charming raconteur." San Francisco Chronicle KATHERINE RUSSELL RICH, author of the award-winning memoir The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer and Back, has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Salon, and O, the Oprah Magazine. www.marinerbooks.com
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