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Jhumpa Lahiri
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2019
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Penguin Books Ltd
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English
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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
β Scribed by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Book ID
- 110931291
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 519 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780141985626
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast'Β Telegraph
This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century.
Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events.
This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.
Reviews:
A fantastically rich - and beautiful - anthology that's teaching me a lot (Chris Power)
A feast . . . her choice of 40 authors embraces familiar greats and sows them with fascinating additions . . . they remind us of the short story's playfulness, it's ability to move us with unexpected sharpness while it experiments with voices, styles and boundaries (Julian EvansΒ Telegraph)
Jhumpa Lahiri has pulled off something quite striking here: a literary anthology that sparkles with invention and variety, makes a remarkably convincing case for the vitality of the modern Italian short story and also beguiles, thanks to her sharp-eyed work as editor, compiler and part-translator. (Robert S C GordonΒ Literary Review)
Taken one by one, each story in this volume is a jewel. Taken all together, the book is a remarkable introduction to Italian literature and a great gift to the English-speaking reader. Remarkable stories from a wide range of writers describe the mundane and the fantastic, the everyday and the sublime. (Kirkus)
An enticing collection . . . a remarkable sample of the literary form . . . the tales are by turns startling, moving, intriguing and provocative; they bring melancholy, humour and a dose of the uncanny. (TLS)
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About the Author:
Jhumpa LahiriΒ is an award-winning author and translator. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 forΒ Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2015. Her other works of fiction in English includeΒ The Lowland, which was a finalist for the Man Booker prize.
467 pages
Publisher: Penguin 467 pages
Publisher: Penguin (7 Mar. 2019)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.Γ r.l.
Language: English
ASIN: B07HFLFJL4
ASIN: B07HFLFJL4
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