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A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade.Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a conf...

The woman moves through the city on her own.She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded square. Sometimes her steps take her to her grieving mother, sealed off in her own solitude. Sometimes they take her to the station, where the trains can spirit her away for a short while.With a delicate and masterful hand, Whereabouts pinpoints a woman standing for a moment in the middle of her life, reflecting on ...

A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade.Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a conf...

If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES 'A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE 'A hypnotic disappearing act' OBSERVER The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian city The woman moves through the city, her ci...

A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade.Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a conf...

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Nach "Tiefland" ist dies der lange erwartete neue Roman der Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Jhumpa Lahiri. Eine allein lebende Italienerin in den Vierzigern: unsicher, scheu, orientierungslos, sich selbst fremd. Die Arbeit als Universitätsangestellte garantiert ihr einen unspektakulären Tagesablauf. Sie begibt sich stets an dieselben, ihr vertrauten Orte, in ihre Lieblingsbar, die Schwimmhalle, die Buchhandlung um die Ecke. An den Wochenenden besucht...

A landmark collection of stories-nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa LahiriA Penguin ClassicWhen Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader--and writer--took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight andunexpected freedom.This collection brings toget...

With a new introduction Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.

La nueva novela de la gran autora revelación de los últimos años, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, y su mayor desafío literario: las estaciones de una mujer de hoy. Una mujer camina por una ciudad contemplando su soledad y la de quienes la rodean. A medida que se desarrolla su día a día -de una librería a la consulta de su terapeuta o a un restaurante- se sorprende con la súplica silenciosa de una lápida en la carretera, el diálogo accidentado de...

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Nati a Calcutta negli anni tormentati dell'indipendenza indiana, i fratelli Subhash e Udayan, fisicamente molto simili, sono anche l'uno l'opposto dell'altro. Silenzioso e riflessivo il primo, ribelle ed esuberante il secondo. Così, quando sul finire degli anni Sessanta nelle università bengalesi si diffonde la rivolta di un gruppo maoista, Udayan vi si getta anima e corpo, Subhash invece se ne tiene alla larga e preferisce partire per gli Sta...

A fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from ', a writer of uncommon elegance and poise' (New York Times)

Auf der Suche nach dem perfekten Umschlag - ein Buch über das Entstehen von Büchern und GefühlenJhumpa Lahiris sehr persönlicher Text ist eine Liebeserklärung an das Buch. Er erzählt davon, welche Gefühle das Aussehen von Büchern erzeugen kann - bei Autoren wie bei Lesern. Als Kind beneidete die in Amerika aufgewachsene indische Autorin ihre Cousins, weil sie eine Schuluniform hatten. Sie hingegen wurde von ihrer Mutter in traditionellen indis...

Vede la morte in faccia, Ashoke Ganguli, una notte d'ottobre, in India, quando il treno deraglia, i vagoni si accartocciano in un lampo. Lo salva il racconto che sta leggendo nell'attimo dell'incidente: Gogol, Il cappotto. Al lume della lanterna, qualcuno scorge le pagine del libro sparse per i campi: il giovane che ne solleva, con le ultime forze, qualche foglio è ancora vivo. Grato allo scrittore russo, sette anni più tardi, in America, Asho...

Die amerikanische Bestsellerautorin Jhumpa Lahiri («Das Tiefland», «Einmal im Leben») hat ein gewagtes Experiment unternommen. Als Sprecherin zweier Sprachen, Englisch und Bengalisch, machte sie sich auf, eine dritte so gut zu lernen, dass sie sie nicht nur fließend sprechen, sondern sogar darin schreiben konnte: das Italienische. Dies ist die Geschichte eines kulturellen und linguistischen Abenteuers. Mit zwei Sprachen wuchs Jhumpa Lahiri auf...