A decade ago, the Pulitzer-winning author threw herself into mastering Italian. She talks about her love for Rome, translating Italyâs âfinest living writerâ and rewriting her own work in English
Jhumpa Lahiri: âWhen I first started writing in Italian I felt like an interloper ⦠But maybe thatâs not a bad thing.â Photograph: Nico Rodriguez/EPA
Jhumpa Lahiri: âWhen I first started writing in Italian I felt like an interloper ⦠But maybe thatâs not a bad thing.â Photograph: Nico Rodriguez/EPA
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Jhumpa Lahiriâs third novel is the triumphant culmination of her 20-year love affair with Italian, an obsession that led her to move to Rome with her family almost 10 years ago. She renounced all reading in English and began to write only Italian. Published in Italy in 2018 as
The Bowen Island ocean-front, 137-acre working farm with a market garden is for sale. FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY / LANDQUEST® REALTY CORPORATION
The Bowen Island ocean-front, 137-acre working farm with a market garden is for sale. FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY / LANDQUEST® REALTY CORPORATION
The Bowen Island ocean-front, 137-acre working farm with a market garden is for sale. FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY / LANDQUEST® REALTY CORPORATION
The Bowen Island ocean-front, 137-acre working farm with a market garden is for sale. FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY / LANDQUEST® REALTY CORPORATION
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Families create their own narratives. Stories are passed on from generation to generation, and in this way the past continues to live, but it can also be obscured or distorted. Joan Didion famously wrote, We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Family arguments often come down to who owns the narrative, or which version is decided upon as the true one. Sarah Polley s fascinating documentary, Stories We Tell, is ostensibly about her mother, Diane Polley, who died in 1990. A powerful and thoughtful film, it is also not what it at first seems, which is part of the point Polley appears to be interested in making. Can the truth ever actually be known about anything?