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About Jhumpa Lahiri
British-American author
Jhumpa Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays. She writes in English and, more recently, in Italian. Her work spans fiction and nonfiction, and she is especially associated with concise, carefully observed prose. Alongside her English-language writing, she has also published in Italian, broadening the language of her literary work.
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- “I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.”Bayard Taylor
- “Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. De…”Asti Hustvedt
- “If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages…”Ilan Stavans
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Books by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
2000
El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)
2005
The Lowland
2014
Unaccustomed Earth
2008
Dove mi trovo
2021