Whereabouts

Whereabouts  (English, Hardcover, Lahiri Jhumpa)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
    • Genre: Literary Criticism
    • ISBN: 9780670095414, 0670095419
    • Pages: 176
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    Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. 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. 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. 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. 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. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English.
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    • Jhumpa Lahiri, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College (Columbia University). She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection. She is also the author of The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland, which was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in fiction. Since 2015, Lahiri has been writing fiction, essays and poetry in Italian: In Altre Parole (In Other Words), Il Vestito dei libri (The Clothing of Books), Dove mi trovo (self-translated as Whereabouts), Il quaderno di Nerina and Racconti romani. She has translated three novels by Domenico Starnone and is the editor of The Penguin Classics Book of Italian Short Stories, which was published in Italy as Racconti Italiani. Lahiri received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2014, and in 2019 she was named Commendatore of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella. Her most recent book in English is a collection of essays entitled Translating Myself and Others, published in Spring 2022 by Princeton University Press.
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    • 12 mm
    Height
    • 216 mm
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    • 135 mm
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    5

    Worth every penny

    It leaves a profound effect on my cluttered and unhappy innerself...it was 6 am in the morning and joyous tear came to my eyes only to realize how little is really needed to make a happy life... this is the truest destination of a nomadic unsettled life ...each chapter has its own metaphor...and lastly i would say : a tiny "portagioie".
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    nabanita mukherjee

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    Must buy!

    The book is beautiful and the delivery was perfect. The book arrived in immaculate condition and I was very happy to receive a cute little bookmark along with it.
    Jhumpa Lahiri's prose is timeless and this is truly one of the best works I have ever read.
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    Rounak Haolader

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    May, 2021

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    Just okay

    From a female reader's perspective this book says many things. From a male reader's perspective this is boring, and not worth.
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    Ayush Srivastava

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    May, 2021

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    Very Good

    The package was good i received original print with sealed packet, i just dives into a new world while reading this novel but i not recommend for a beginner who just started reading books,
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    gokul atri

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    May, 2022

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    Pretty good

    Everything is good beautifully written but it's from a woman's point of view...it explores the life of a woman,her love affairs,secrets,her daily life
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    Classy product

    Item as described, delivered on time, happy with the purchase.
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    Mind-blowing purchase

    It's an amazing write up... One with an urge to experience quality reading must give it a read 😌❤️
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    Good

    Page quality is good content relates to feminism,
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    Good choice

    I've no words to describe .. it's too good to grab !!
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    Excellent

    I read all of Jumpa Lahiri. Delivery is good also.
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    May, 2021

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