Джумпа Лахири - Whereabouts [calibre]

The quotation on this page comes from Il mare (The sea) by Corrado Alvaro:

Io, dopo un poco, fuggo interrorito all’ombra dalla grande fiamma: mi sembra debba consumarmi, che mi prenda e mi riduca un elemento ancor più piccolo di questa terra, un verme o una pianta…Non riesco a pensare a nulla, tutto mi sembra inutile, la vita mi appare d’una facilità estrema, non m’importa se di me non si occupa più nessuno, se quasi più nessuno mi scrive.

a note about the author

Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012, and named Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic) by President Sergio Mattarella in 2019. Editor of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, she has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, both as a novelist and as a translator.

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