Dove mi trovo

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Una solitudine totale che sinceramente soffoca alla fine il lettore, la protagonista sembra volutamente creata senza la possibilità di chiedersi e donarsi il perchè delle cose e senza forza e desiderio "vero"di cambiamento. The unnamed narrator acknowledges that she keeps aloof from her work colleagues and that they might perceive her as 'prickly, unpleasant' but to acknowledge is enough for her, she's not interested in correcting or reaching out.

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Dove mi trovo, which will be published in English as Whereabouts next spring, is the first novel Jhumpa Lahiri's has written in Italian. The particular ecosystem containing Latin, Italian, and English renders Italian more familiar, and English more marvelously strange. Again I have the feeling that the English translation is being almost deliberately distanced and even downplayed.The story unfolds in vignettes, sometimes only a single page long, all triggered by her location, with chapter titles such as: On the Street, In the Piazza, In My Head, At the Beautician, etc. But, again, she herself could be someone of foreign extraction but raised in Italy, as so many people are.

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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. Photograph: Nico Rodriguez/EPA Jhumpa Lahiri: ‘When I first started writing in Italian I felt like an interloper … But maybe that’s not a bad thing. When she said she was willing to translate the first dozen or so pages, so that we could both get a feel for how her translation would sound, I was relieved.Yes, it is clear she may have some regrets but there is peace about the way she decided to live her life and that for me was so affirming.