Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri [in Booklist]
27 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American, Translation
Pulitzer Prize-winning polyglot Jhumpa Lahiri’s second title in Italian arrives in her own translation, narrated by Italian American Susan Vinciotti Bonito. Despite Bonito’s fluency in their shared language, her noticeably youthful timbre isn’t initially convincing as Lahiri’s unnamed, 40-something protagonist. And yet Lahiri’s unadorned, sharply...