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Jhumpa Lahiri – amerykańska powieściopisarka, autorka opowiadań.

Jej rodzice pochodzą z Bengalu. Ona sama urodziła się w Londynie, od trzeciego roku życia mieszka w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Studiowała na Boston University. Debiutowała w 1999 zbiorem opowiadań Tłumacz chorób. Książka w następnym roku została uhonorowana Nagrodą Pulitzera. W dorobku ma także powieść zatytułowaną Imiennik oraz kolejny zbiór opowiadań - Nieoswojona ziemia - z 2008 roku. W swojej twórczości przedstawia problemy emigrantów z Indii z dostosowaniem się do życia w Ameryce. Ukazuje różnicę między pierwszym pokoleniem emigrantów , a drugim , wychowanym już na obczyźnie. Często czerpie z doświadczeń własnych, swojej rodziny lub przyjaciół.

Ma na koncie publikacje New Yorkerze. Mieszka w Nowym Jorku. Od 2010 jest członkinią President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

✵ 11. Lipiec 1967  •  Natępne imiona جومپا لاهیری, ଝୁମ୍ପା ଲାହିରୀ
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Jhumpa Lahiri: 28 cytatów0 Polubień

Jhumpa Lahiri: Cytaty po angielsku

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka Interpreter of Maladies

Źródło: Interpreter of Maladies

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“She has the gift of accepting her life.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“My grandfather always says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake, (2003) p. 16.

“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Wariant: Remember it always. Remember that you and I made this journey and went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
Źródło: The Namesake

“One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“Sexy means loving someone you do not know.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka Interpreter of Maladies

Źródło: Interpreter of Maladies

“Isolation offered its own form of companionship”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Lowland

Źródło: The Lowland

“Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Lowland

Źródło: The Lowland

“You remind me of everything that followed.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka Unaccustomed Earth

Źródło: Unaccustomed Earth

“She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka Interpreter of Maladies

Źródło: Interpreter of Maladies

“Do what I will never do.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka Unaccustomed Earth

Źródło: Unaccustomed Earth

“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Lowland

Źródło: The Lowland

“On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka Unaccustomed Earth

Źródło: Unaccustomed Earth

“Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Namesake

Źródło: The Namesake

“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka The Lowland

Źródło: The Lowland

“The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri

“A woman who had fallen out of love with her life”

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Jhumpa Lahiri książka Interpreter of Maladies

Źródło: Interpreter of Maladies

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