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
MagazineExuberance 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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