I was always aware of what the language I was …– Jhumpa Lahiri
I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents – how it defined the
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I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents – how it defined the
Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in
I can’t tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of
Many of the novelists I admire never left their hometown. Look at Flannery O’Connor. So many of the great Russians never left Russia. Shakespeare never
When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and
I think about the structure, sure. I think about what’s going to happen, and how it’s going to happen, and the pace. But I think
I feel that Italy’s a country that’s constantly looking out and constantly following what’s happening in other cultural centers. What is being written in America,
Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
My parents’ relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.
When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret,
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