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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm reading The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri[/quote]

What are your thoughts? I really enjoyed her writing style in my 20s/early 30s…then she switched to Italian, and I haven’t found the same sense of connection from the back translations. Interpreter of Maladies (short stories) may need to be a re-read for me in 2026![/quote]

Lahiri wrote the Lowland in 2013, so I think it predates her writing in Italian (not 100% positive though). I'm about a third in and its excellent. Straddles India and the U.S. in the 1960s. Her writing is so easy to sink into. [/quote]

NP. I also loved The Lowland.

I read two recent short stories by her and loved the one published in the New Yorker this summer— it was about a summer she spent in London when she was ten. It had her same gorgeous writing style. I think it was semi or completely autobiographical. I read another about an expat living somewhere in Italy (published in Best American Short Stories 2024) and just didn’t connect with it; it was among my least favorite in the collection. I wondered if the first one was written in English and the second in Italian originally and maybe why I felt a bit of disconnect. [/quote]

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