EAN: 9780593312087

WHEREABOUTS - JHUMPA LAHIRI KARTONIERT (TB)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The
Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies 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. 
“Another masterstroke in a career already filled with them.” — O  the Oprah Magazine  
Exuberance and dread  attachment and estrangement: in this novel  Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her
themes to the limit. In the arc of one year  an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city  in the
middle of her life’s journey  realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as
a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house  and in parks  piazzas 
museums  stores  and coffee bars  she feels less alone.   We follow her to the pool she
frequents  and to the train station that leads to her mother  who is mired in her own solitude
after her husband’s untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman’s path are colleagues
with whom she feels ill at ease  casual acquaintances  and “him ” a shadow who both consoles
and unsettles her. Until one day at the sea  both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s
vital heat  her perspective will abruptly change.     This is the first novel Lahiri has
written in Italian and translated into English. The reader will find the qualities that make
Lahiri’s work so beloved: deep intelligence and feeling  richly textured physical and emotional
landscapes  and a poetics of dislocation. But Whereabouts   brimming with the impulse to cross
barriers  also signals a bold shift of style and sensibility. By grafting herself onto a new
literary language  Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.

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