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"The Uncomfortable Place" is a collection of short stories by Bangladeshi-American female writer Juppa Lahiri. After it was published in April 2008, it ranked first in the fiction category on the New York Times bestseller list. In the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award selection that year, it was awarded the grand prize directly from the shortlist. The judges said it was so good that it had no "real rival". "The Uncomfortable Place" revolves around love, family and friendship, and is divided into five short stories and a trilogy-style novella. It mainly tells the life of the second generation Indian immigrants in European and American society. The problems they face are not only the choice and integration between two cultures, but also the conflicts and knots caused by different concepts between them and their parents' first-generation immigrants. From Mumbai to Seattle, from Calcutta to Rome, they felt the touch of love, the discomfort in a foreign land, the test of marriage and the war between peers. They grew up and took root in a foreign land with loneliness and uneasiness, joy and sadness.

"Rome Diaries" is the latest collection of essays written in Italian by the famous American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Giupa Lahiri. There are twenty-three articles in total, recording her long process of learning to express herself in another language and finding a "new voice." This is not a boring language learning notebook, but a novelist's spiritual revelation that opens up new areas - language, culture, and self-awareness. At a certain moment, the creator feels the need to change his path: this is a crazy impulse, which may mean giving up his original characteristics and symbols as an expresser; this is also a bold leap, and what he gains is richer possibilities in creation and life.