Later Sasson wrote PRINCESS: A TRUE STORY OF LIFE BEHIND THE VEIL IN SAUDI ARABIA, which is the story of a princess in the royal house of al-Sa'ud. When the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington heard that soldiers sent to free Kuwait did not know why they were there, the Embassy sent 200,000 copies to the region. The book was an instant best-seller, reaching #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Jean started her writing career in 1991 when she wrote the book, THE RAPE OF KUWAIT. She traveled extensively, visiting 66 countries over the course of 30 years. When given the chance to travel, Sasson accepted a position at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, and lived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 12 years. She also began her book collection at age 15. An avid reader from an early age, she had read all the books in her school library by the time she was 15 years old. Jean Sasson was born in a small town in Alabama.
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In this talk, she presents and discusses her latest book Italian Short Stories, a landmark collection of stories – nearly half appearing in English for the first time –, in dialogue with Nicoletta Pireddu, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Georgetown University. In recent years, Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language, and started reading and writing only in Italian: a practice of estrangement and linguistic passion that gave birth to an auto-fiction memoir, a number of essays and stories, and the novel Dove mi trovo (2018). Jhumpa Lahiri 8,268 Paperback 91 offers from 3.93 Unaccustomed Earth (Vintage Contemporaries) Jhumpa Lahiri 3,111 Paperback 258 offers from 1.25 The Namesake: A Novel Jhumpa Lahiri 9,691 Paperback Teachers' pick 115 offers from 2.06 The Lowland (Vintage Contemporaries) Jhumpa Lahiri 7,784 Paperback 164 offers from 1. KELLY: That is Jhumpa Lahiri talking about her new book, 'Whereabouts.' This was a pleasure. 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