Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri

Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa LahiriLuminous essays on translation and self translation by the award winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between

symbolizing his role as a keeper of sacred spaces

Reserve about exposing ourselves too much

a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet

published in 2015

the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin

the science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology—ans this paradigm shift has far-reaching implications for us all

As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life

but rather

is in fact a good witch who shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon

the orphan boy outwits his greedy uncles with a bag of ash

holds an unforgettable position in the Indian literary imagination

The enemy is his own boss