Assistant Professor of Italian Studies Alessandro Giammei was quoted in a about the author Jhumpa Lahiri and her new novel Whereabouts, which Lahiri published in Italian in 2018 as Dove Mi Trovo and translated herself.
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Alessandro Giammei, an assistant professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr and a former colleague of Lahiri鈥檚, was an early reader of both the Italian and English versions. In 鈥淒ove Mi Trovo,鈥 he was struck by the elegance of the language and the precision of Lahiri鈥檚 word choices. 鈥淵ou cannot read this book without moving your mouth in Italian,鈥 he said.
鈥淭he incredible detail of her observational writing that is classic Jhumpa Lahiri is not in 鈥榃hereabouts,鈥欌 Giammei said. If, in English, Lahiri is an eye, he added, 鈥渋n Italian, she鈥檚 an ear.鈥
Lahiri visited Bryn Mawr's campus in the fall of 2019 to talk to students about her work and her curatorship and translation of short stories by Italian authors of the 20th century.