Dreaming In Hindi: Life In Translation - Softcover

Rich, Katherine Russell

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9781846272622: Dreaming In Hindi: Life In Translation

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ISBN 10: 1846272629 ISBN 13: 9781846272622

Publisher: Granta Books, 2011

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A gem of a book that combines a memoir, travelogue, spiritual recovery and linguistic adventure, as the author recalls he year of total immersion in a specialist language school in India. An uplifting read. (bio)

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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""In her deftly written memoir, "Dreaming in Hindi," Rich makes us wish we too could come alive in a foreign world, fearless of mistakes, misperceptions and mishaps, and enlivened by the unfamiliar . . . a natural journalist, [she] gracefully sprinkles reportage about neuroscience and linguistics, as well as her own poignant insights, into her narrative." --"Elle"s

About the Author:

Katherine Russell Rich is the author of the award-winning memoir The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer and Back. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Salon, and O, the Oprah Magazine. She teaches writing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. http://www.katherinerussellrich.com/

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