Roman Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri, Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator), Todd Portnowitz (Translator)
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Pulitzer-Prize-winning Jhumpa Lahiri is back with a gorgeous collection of shorts. These stories take place in a Rome that few have ever seen, delivering a meaningful exploration of the immigrant experience that lands with a resounding effect.
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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- Roman Stories
- Title
- Roman Stories
- Author
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator), Todd Portnowitz (Translator)
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0593536320
- ISBN 13
- 9780593536322
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date Published
- 10/2023
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 8.30(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.90(d)
- Keywords
- Roman Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri, 9780593536322
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