March 2022: Jhumpa Lahiri

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March 2022: Jhumpa Lahiri

1AnnieMod
Dic 10, 2021, 7:06 pm

We are rounding up Q1 with our first female author for the year: Jhumpa Lahiri (1967-). Born in London, England to Indian immigrant parents, her family moved to USA when she was 3 and then she moved to Italy in 2001. She considers herself an American author but in 2018 she published a novel in Italian (which she later translated into English). she had also published poetry and non-fiction in Italian.

Her debut collection Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer for Fiction in 2000 (where do you go from there?).

She has published 3 novels and 2 collections among the usual assortment of uncollected stories, non-fiction, essays, poetry and so on.

What do you plan to read this month? And if anyone who plans to join us reads Italian, what language do you plan to read her in? Does it matter what language she wrote initially in?

2AnnieMod
Mar 16, 2022, 2:24 pm

Anyone reading any Lahiri this month? :)

I have Whereabouts coming fro the library and hope to get to it this month...

3marell
Mar 24, 2022, 9:45 am

I am halfway through The Lowland and enjoying it very much.

4MissWatson
Mar 25, 2022, 4:18 am

The namesake just arrived in the mail, but I don't know yet if I can get to it. The month is running away from me.

5marell
Editado: Mar 25, 2022, 10:07 pm

I’ve just finished The Lowland. It is the story of two close, but different brothers, Subhash and Udayan Mitra, whose lives take very different paths.
It is a family story taking place from the 1940s to the present day, in India and the United States. The sense of place and time is just right. The story is not a happy one, but Ms. Lahiri’s writing is so wonderful, and I was engrossed in it from beginning to end.

6MissWatson
Abr 23, 2022, 12:08 pm

And I finally finished The namesake, it's taken me a lot longer than I expected. Beautifully written, and I loved that everyone lives with books.