5/21/2023 0 Comments Latest book by jhumpa lahiri![]() ![]() ![]() Her latest book, In Other Words (2016), is a memoir written - in Italian - while she and her family lived in Rome. Lahiri returned to short stories with the New York Times bestseller Unaccustomed Earth (2008), followed by her second novel, The Lowland (2013), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. She continued to focus on the lives of Indian immigrants with her first novel, The Namesake (2003), which was later adapted into a popular film. ![]() Read More Stay connected for the latest books, Ideas, and special offers. Naturally it could be translated any text can, with greater or lesser degrees of success. with her Bengali parents as a young child, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies (1999), her debut short story collection, which sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. Books Review Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel Whereabouts an engaging pandemic escape Set in Italy and with a fascinating back story Lahiri’s ‘expert prose’ creates ‘an artful exposition. Jhumpa Lahiri: Where I find myself Having written my novel Dove mi trovo in Italian, I was the first to doubt that it could transform into English. Lahiri, who was born in London and moved to the U.S. Lahiri’s first novel to be written originally in Italian focuses on a narrator adrift, free from the anxieties of geography ‘Where her English thrived on the particular, Jhumpa Lahiri’s. What drew me to my craft was the desire to force the two worlds I occupied to mingle on the page as I was not brave enough, or mature enough, to allow in life,” Jhumpa Lahiri wrote in a 2006 Newsweek article. “When I first started writing I was not conscious that my subject was the Indian-American experience. ![]()
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