Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri
Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri 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. Sometimes…
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Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri
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. 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. 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.
By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. 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. 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.