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Dec 12, 2016tjdickey rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Others have commented here about the risks Lahiri took, both in using the Italian language as her choice for composition (and un-corrected for grammar in Italian!) and in the internal style of the narrative. The book thus cannot be as successful on the surface as earlier novels. What makes it so successful regardless is her strong and literate personality in *any* language, trying to plumb the depths of vocabulary almost as a poet would.