Whereabouts / Jhumpa Lahiri.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf ; 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 157 pages : hardback ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593318317
- 0593318315
- Dove mi trovo. English.
- 813/.54Â 23
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Altamont Public Library Adult Fiction | Altamont Public Library | Adult Books | F Lahiri (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35323000081104 | ||
Book | Iola Public Library Adult Fiction | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | F Lahiri, Jhumpa (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34311002887256 | ||
Book | Pleasanton Lincoln Library Adult Fiction | Pleasanton Lincoln Library | Adult Books | F Lah (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35315100145730 |
"Originally published in Italy as Dove mi trovo by Ugo Guanda Editors S.f.l., Milan, in 2018"--Title page verso.
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.
"Written in Italian and translated by the author"--Title page.
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