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Una Roma mista e metafisica, contemporanea ma eternamente sospesa fra passato e futuro, è la vera protagonista, non l'ambientazione, di questa raccolta. Nove racconti, alcuni di respiro romanzesco, in cui riconosciamo una città contraddittoria che ridefinisce sempre se stessa, trasformandosi di generazione in generazione in un amalgama, in un viavai ibrido di stranieri e romani che si sentono comunque sempre tutti fuori posto....

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,...

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Von der Sehnsucht nach einer besseren Welt und vom Fremdsein in der schönsten aller Städte: Rom. Das neue Buch der vielfach ausgezeicheten Pulitzerpreisträgerin und «Meisterin der Kurzgeschichte» (Die Welt). Ein Mann erinnert sich an eine Sommerparty, die eine andere Version seiner selbst zum Leben erweckt hat. Ein Paar, das von einem tragischen Verlust heimgesucht wird, kehrt nach Rom zurück, um Trost zu suchen. Eine Außenseiterfamilie wird ...

In ''The Boundary'', one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker''s daughter, who nurses a wound from her family''s immigrant past. In ''P''s Parties'', a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend''s yearly birthday gathering-until the husband crosses a line

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories: the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth, and a major literary event.In “The Boundary, ” one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of t...

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction ...

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories: the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form since her number one New York Times bestseller Unaccustomed Earth, and a major literary event.In “The Boundary, ” one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of th...

Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, returns to the form of short stories with an astonishing work of fiction, set in and around Rome.

Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, comes to Picador with an astonishing work of fiction, set in and around Rome.

The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories: the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form since her number one New York Times bestseller Unaccustomed Earth, and a major literary event.In “The Boundary, ” one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of th...

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In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of translation, another describes her decision to translate he...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies-her first in nearly a decade-about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. A Most Anticipated Novel of 2021 from • Buzzfeed • O, The Oprah Magazine • TIME • Vulture • Vogue • LitHub • Harper's Bazaar Exubera...

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...

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