Jhumpa Lahiri

An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. Reprint.

The Namesake

In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

Stories

Interpreter of Maladies

Unaccustomed Earth

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 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.

Roman Stories

Een Bengaalse familie blijft tot in de derde generatie lijden onder de gewelddadige dood van de revolutionair ingestelde jongste zoon.

The lowland

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, eight dazzling stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father who carefully tends her garden–where she later unearths evidence of a love affair he is keeping to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a couple’s romantic getaway weekend takes a dark turn at a party that lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a woman eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories–a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love and fate–we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one fateful winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with the author’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is the work of a writer at the peak of her powers.

A Novel

Todd Portnowitz

ترجمان الأوجاع

The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own. She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded square. Sometimes her steps take her to her grieving mother, sealed off in her own solitude. Sometimes they take her to the station, where the trains can spirit her away for a short while. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change forever. A rare work of fiction, Whereabouts - first written in Italian and then translated by the author herself - brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. A dazzling evocation of a city, its captures a woman standing on one of life's thresholds, reflecting on what has been lost and facing, with equal hope and rage, what may lie ahead.

Whereabouts

Brotherly Love

An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. 150,000 first printing.

Domenico Starnone

Trust

Racconti italiani scelti e introdotti da Jhumpa Lahiri

Year's End

Improvisations

Ann Goldstein

In Other Words

Gogol

Solo bontà

Gógol Ganguli tem nome russo, sobrenome indiano e um espírito dividido entre diferentes modos de vida. É com esses elementos, transformados por uma prosa tão delicada quanto profunda, que Jhumpa Lahiri comprova em seu primeiro romance as qualidades que lhe renderam o prestigiado prêmio Pulitzer por seu livro de estreia, a coletânea de contos Intérprete de males. Uma das mais importantes vozes da literatura em língua inglesa, a autora é convidada da Flip em 2014. O protagonista de O xará, Gógol, sente-se perdido entre duas culturas: a dos Estados Unidos, onde nasceu e vive, e a que veio da Índia e nos corações de seus pais, imigrantes em busca de oportunidades em território americano. No novo país, sua mãe logo começa “a se dar conta de que ser estrangeira é uma espécie de gravidez eterna — uma espera perpétua, um fardo constante, um sentimento contínuo de indisposição”. Recém-chegados, ela e o marido enfrentam um primeiro e significativo obstáculo: são obrigados a registrar o filho ainda na maternidade, antes de o “nome bom” – o que deve ser usado na vida pública, por tradição escolhido pela avó materna – chegar por carta de Calcutá. É por essa razão que, além do sobrenome indiano, Gógol tem de aprender a lidar com o nome de batismo que homenageia o grande escritor russo. O romance acompanha a família Ganguli em suas constantes viagens, físicas ou espirituais, entre tradições e costumes, entre a Índia e os Estados Unidos, entre o passado e o presente. São as tentativas de lidar, da infância à maturidade, com o choque das culturas e suas consequências na vida de uma pessoa comum – na relação com os pais, na educação sentimental, na vida profissional – que dão o tom em O xará.

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