Quick sort code explanation

This is code that I came across implementing the quick sort algorithm. Can you please explain how the recursion works here?

 void quickSort(int arr[], int left, int right)
 {
  int i = left, j = right;
  int tmp;
  int pivot = arr[(left + right) / 2];

  /* partition */
  while (i <= j) {
        while (arr[i] < pivot)
              i++;
        while (arr[j] > pivot)
              j--;
        if (i <= j) {
              tmp = arr[i];
              arr[i] = arr[j];
              arr[j] = tmp;
              i++;
              j--;
    }
}
/* recursion */
if (left < j)
    quickSort(arr, left, j);
if (i < right)
        quickSort(arr, i, right);
}

And please note, this is not homework.