Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Cites

• Giorgio Bassani (1)
  • IN: The Lowland (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: lascia ch’io torni al mio paese sepolto nell’erba come in un mare caldo e pesante Let me return to my home town entombed in grass as in a warm and high sea
    FROM: Saluto a Roma, (1945), Poem, Italy
• Nikolai Gogol (1)
  • IN: The Namesake (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The reader should realize himself that it could not have happened otherwise, and that to give him any other name was quite out of the question.
    FROM: The Overcoat, (1842), Short Story, Russia
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)
  • IN: Unaccustomed Earth (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
    FROM: “The Customs House”, (1850), Essay, US