Jhumpa Lahiri
Birth date: July 11, 1967
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This is a great story. It provides a compelling answer to the 400 year old question, "What's in a Name?" I had initially struggled with whether to make this a 3 or 4 star read but I realized that for as much as my own experience made the story not new for me, sitting down to write the review and see...
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri is a very slim volume that repeats a philosophical statement several times - a book is not its cover, and a cover is not the book. Unfortunately, the book stops at that statement and does not go beyond to discuss the reasons, decisions, and conversations behind...
As a professional who writes in a different language than his mother tongue, Lahiri's short book 'In Other Words' seemed to spoke to me directly. I, too, am anxious about making grammar errors(that translated in my language seemed correct) and about using 'textbook' language instead of more ordinary...
Me and Italian language go way back. In fact, ours has become a long-lasting relationship even though I have often neglected him along the way – English has always been of greater use, and then I met German who I had to get close to. Not to forget Bulgarian who was there from the start. I have love ...
These stories feel universal; I am uncomfortably aware that this comment - from a white reader, on a non-white author's work - may smack of insensitivity to difference, but they feel universal the way greatest Russian literature does; they present human weaknesses and imperfection in a humorous, but...
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