EAN: 9781524711993

WHEREABOUTS - JHUMPA LAHIRI KARTONIERT (TB)

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.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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