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LAHIRI JHUMPA ROMAN STORIES

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER  NPR • The first short story collection by the Pulitzer
Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller
Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument  suspended between past and future 
multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist  not the setting  of these nine stories  "A
delectable  sun-washed treat . . . the stories have the beating heart of the city itself  a
place of magnificent decay and vibrant  varied life." — Vogue   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.  And in “The Steps ” on a public
staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the residents who climb up and down it  we see
Italy’s capital in all of its social and cultural variegations  filled with the tensions of a
changing city: visibility and invisibility  random acts of aggression  the challenge of
straddling worlds and cultures  and the meaning of home.  These are splendid  searching stories
written in Jhumpa Lahiri’s adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author
and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz. Stories steeped in the moods of Italian master Alberto
Moravia and guided  in the concluding tale  by the ineluctable ghost of Dante Alighieri  whose
words lead the protagonist toward a new way of life.

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