From The New York Times review of London-born, Bengali-bred Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri‘s latest book of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth:
“The place to which you feel the strongest attachment isn’t necessarily the country you’re tied to by blood or birth: it’s the place that allows you to become yourself. This place, she quietly indicates, may not lie on any map.”
Read the full review: American children
Jhumpa should see a head-specialist if she continues to live in a fantasy world instead of trying to understand the beauty that surrounds us.
All creative people live in a world of their own, sort of fantasy world , isn’t it?
Most of them in fact walk that thin line between sanity and insanity, according that ‘sane world’ !!!
Most commentors probably havent even read one book of Jhumpa and yet want to write drivel based on a small extract.
At least look at her and drool:
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0221/m/8b.jpg
I read her first two books but what stayed with me is Pankaj Mishra’s review in the The New York Review of Books. This time again, I find the review mentioned above very interesting. Some times, the reviews, interviews, discussions etc. seem quite interesting by themselves. There is a huge discussion in Sepia Mutiny with lots of links and the following interesting interview: http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_01/2250
The quote struck a chord in me.
Jhumpa gets away with the stuff she writes because she’s cute. That and her obvious literary talent make me want to utterly ‘jump her’. If he was fat and ugly, her success would be very limited.
Vibhudi,
“Jhumpa gets away with the stuff” followed by “her obvious literary talent”?
“If he was fat and ugly,”
Freudian slip? Talking about yourself? If you are fat and ugly why would Jhumpa’s success be limited?
Blinded by her beauty aa? Time to “jump your bed” and get it over with?
Oh come on A-Guy. Like you’ve never had a keyboard error before…
Yeah yeah. Just joking…
Jhumpa did not name herself so, o you translators of maladies. One of her teachers gave her that apellation.