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‘Whereabouts’: Jhumpa Lahiri is still asking what it means to belong, though not for immigrants
Lahiri translated her own Italian novel into English, and is not writing of the Indian diaspora in the USA.
In an interview in 2017, one year before she published
Dove mi trovo, her first novel in Italian, Jhumpa Lahiri spoke about her metamorphosis as a writer. “I used to look for an identity that could be sharp, acceptable, mine. But now the idea of a precise identity seems a trap.”
Five years earlier, Lahiri had surprised readers and friends alike by moving to Rome, led by an overriding desire to immerse herself in Italy, and more specifically, its language. In 2015, she published her first book in Italian,

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