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Whereabouts was first written in Italian, Lahiri's second book in the language after In Other Words, a non-fiction book. [2] Though the city in which the book is set is not disclosed, Lahiri has said it "[...] was born in Rome and set in my head in Rome and written almost entirely on return visits to Rome".
All public schools and many private schools in Bangladesh follow the curriculum of NCTB. Starting in 2010, every year free books are distributed to students between Grade-1 to Grade-10 to eliminate illiteracy. [6] These books comprise most of the curricula of the majority of Bangladeshi schools. There are two versions of the curriculum.
Lahiri was in the winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 for her book The Lowland at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival for which she entered Limca Book of Records. [30] In 2017, Lahiri received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story. [31] In 2018, Lahiri published her first novel in Italian, Dove mi trovo (2018).
Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel "Whereabouts" was uniquely written – it's an English translation of a story she originally wrote and published in Italian.
As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book was Lahiri's first to top The New York Times Best Seller list , where it debuted at #1.
Now even national curriculum books from class 5 to class 12 are distributed freely among all students and schools. The educational system of Bangladesh faces several problems. In the past, Bangladesh education was primarily a British modelled upper-class affair with all courses given in English and very little being done for the common people.
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