She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize the PEN/Hemingway Award the PEN/Malamud Award the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award the Premio Gregor von Rezzori the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole. Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and "him," a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties.
Purchase a ticket for this event and receive a complimentary copy of Whereabouts, delivered right to your door!Ī marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies-her first in nearly a decade.Įxuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit.
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