Jhumpa Lahiri
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of translation; another describes her decision to translate her own...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collection of eight stories includes the title work, about a young mother in a new city whose father tends her garden while hiding a secret love affair.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant:...
9) The namesake
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English