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The American bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri ("The Lowlands", "Once in a Lifetime") has undertaken a daring experiment. As a speaker of two languages, English and Bengali, she set out to learn a third so well that she could not only speak it fluently, but even write in it: Italian. This is the story of a cultural and linguistic adventure. Jhumpa Lahiri grew up with two languages: Bengali was spoken in the family and she learned to read and write in English in the United States. She never felt completely at home in either language. But then, during a trip to Florence in 1994 - a sudden, wild affair with Italian, a language that promised new freedom, adventure and independence. But soon the young lovers were separated again: Lahiri returned to New York, and for years only a small one lasted.