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Katherine Russell Rich follows up her cancer survival memoir THE RED DEVIL with a description of her year of immersion in Hindi while in a language program in the city of Udaipur. Her account is filled with culture clashes both humorous and disturbing, spirited descriptions of her fellow students and the Indians she met, and vivid descriptions of her host country. What sets DREAMING IN HINDI apart from other travel memoirs is its in-depth examination of the latest scientific theories on the way the brain changes during learning acquisition, and Rich uses testimonies from linguistics experts to provide analysis of the way her mind, and personality, shifted as it began to eventually dream in another language.
| Size | | Length: | 360 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[I]n this wonderful memoir....Rich...recounts...immersing herself in the transformative complexities of learning Hindi." (starred review)
(04/13/2009)
"On one level, Rich's capacious memoir of the time she spent in India learning the Hindi language is about just that....On every other level, however, it is so much more: a judiciously researched treatise on the nature of linguistics; an imaginative paean to the wondrous alchemy of language; and, most of all, a revelatory and often disturbing expose of the dark side of cultural immersion."
(06/01/2009)
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