![]() ![]() Her love affair began in 1994, when she bought a pocket dictionary before a trip to Florence. It is this tension, between the need to belong and the need to grow, that is the basis for her beautiful new work of nonfiction.įew people carry an obsession as far as Lahiri has taken her passion for Italian. On visits to India, some considered her too Western. The comparison is apt not because Naipaul and Lahiri share Indian heritage but because, as Lahiri writes, “I’ve always lived on the margins of countries, of cultures.” When she lived in the United States, strangers treated her as foreign. ![]() ![]() I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad but I will evade that fate yet.” In 1954, he wrote, “In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. Naipaul’s famous quote about his identity. It’s difficult to read “In Other Words,” Jhumpa Lahiri’s book about her love of Italian, without thinking of V.S. ![]()
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