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Roman stories / Jhumpa Lahiri ; translated from the Italian by the author with Todd Portnowitz.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Lahiri Roman
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, author, translator.
- Standardized Title:
- Racconti romani. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Rome (Italy)--Fiction.
- Rome (Italy).
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Rome (Italy)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Italian fiction--Translations into English.
- Italian fiction.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 204 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth, and a major literary event. 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 visibility and invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home.
- Contents:
- The boundary
- The re-entry
- P's parties
- Well-lit house
- The steps
- The delivery
- The procession.
- The steps
- The delivery
- The procession
- Notes
- Dante Alighieri.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover as Racconti roman, an imprint of Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol, Milan, in 2022.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lahiri, Jhumpa. Roman stories.
- ISBN:
- 9780593536322
- 0593536320
- OCLC:
- 1362499403
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