Jhumpa Lahiri





Jhumpa Lahiri

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July 11, 1967 in London (England), The United Kingdom

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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age.

Lahiri graduated from South Kingstown High School and later received her B.A. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989. She then received multiple degrees from Boston University: an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She took up a fellowship at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997-1998).

In 2001, she married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Edi...more


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Average rating: 3.99 · 147,127 ratings · 14,826 reviews · 10 distinct works
The Namesake
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 69,752 ratings — published 2003 — 51 editions
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Interpreter of Maladies
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 47,525 ratings — published 1999 — 44 editions
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Unaccustomed Earth
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 26,276 ratings — published 2008 — 35 editions
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Interpreter of Maladies / The...
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 2010
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Hell-Heaven
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停電の夜に
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Solo bontà
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Sono Na Ni Chinande
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“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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