Jhumpa Lahiri

Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination, and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas. The Christian communities of India celebrate the birth of Christ with food, music, lights, prayer, family gatherings, charity, and other age-old traditions. This anthology captures the distinctive magic of Christmas in India and in the Indian diaspora with a splendid collection of essays, stories, poems, and hymns―both in English and translated from India's other languages. It includes works by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Booker Prize winners Salman Rushdie and Aravind Adiga, Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, Khushwant Singh, Jerry Pinto, Damodar Mauzo, Vivek Menezes, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, and others writing about Christmas in Goa, Kerala, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, as well as in London and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Vuelve la mejor Jhumpa Lahiri, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y aclamada por sus «historias simples y sutiles, sembradas con sentimientos inesperados, como un campo de minas (Pedro Almod var) Una familia disfruta de sus vacaciones en una casa de campo romana mientras la hija de los guardianes --una pareja que arrastra una antigua afrenta-- se encarga de las tareas dom sticas y la observa discretamente; un alegre reencuentro de dos amigas revela, sin embargo, diferencias irreconciliables; un escritor maduro se obsesiona por una mujer con la que solo coincide en las fiestas de una amiga; una familia hostigada por sus vecinos se ve obligada a abandonar su hogar. Con estos «cuentos escritos en estado de gracia (Roberto Carnero, Avvenire), la autora de El int rprete del dolor y Tierra desacostumbrada vuelve al g nero que la hizo mundialmente c lebre y acreedora de los premios Pulitzer y PEN/Hemingway. Relato tras relato, Jhumpa Lahiri nos sorprende y nos conmueve con un libro deslumbrante sobre el amor, el desarraigo y la soledad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Jhumpa Lahiri returns at her best--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and acclaimed for her "simple, subtle stories, planted with unexpected emotions, like a minefield" (Pedro Almod var). A family enjoys their vacation in a Roman country house while the caretakers' daughter--a young woman burdened by an old family grievance--quietly observes them as she handles the household chores. A joyful reunion between two friends reveals irreconcilable differences. A middle-aged writer becomes obsessed with a woman he only sees at parties hosted by a mutual friend. A family, tormented by their neighbors, is forced to abandon their home. With these "stories written in a state of grace" (Roberto Carnero, Avvenire), the author of Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth returns to the genre that made her world-famous and earned her both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award. Story after story, Jhumpa Lahiri astonishes and moves readers with a brilliant book about love, displacement, solitude, and the natural rhythms of a city that embraces everyone equally.

En mann minnes en sommerfest som vekker til live en ukjent side ved ham. Et par plages av et tragisk tap og vender tilbake til Roma for å søke trøst. En familie blir presset ut av bygården der de hadde håpet å skape seg en framtid. En trapp binder sammen to nabolag og menneskene som bruker den hver dag.Fortellinger fra Roma er en samling stemningsfulle og kraftfulle noveller, der byen opptrer som den mest fengslende karakteren av alle: full av kontraster, stadig i endring og et hjem for dem som vet at de ikke helt passer inn, men som likevel velger å bli.Med denne boka viser Jhumpa Lahiri hvor utfordrende det er å balansere livet mellom to verdener og kulturer, og betydningen av å høre til. Hun er en av våre fremste samtidsforfattere og har mottatt en rekke priser for sitt forfatterskap. Lahiri fikk sitt inter-nasjonale gjennombrudd med novellesamlingen Lidelsenes tolk, som kom på norsk i 2002.

Un libro nico en el que la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del Pen Hemingway da voz a una misteriosa escritora cuyos poemas cuentan una vida sospechosamente parecida a la suya. En el fondo del caj n de un escritorio de su casa de Roma, la autora halla algunos objetos olvidados por sus anteriores due os: sellos, un diccionario griego-italiano, botones, postales que nunca se enviaron, la foto de tres mujeres de pie frente a una ventana y un cuaderno fucsia con el nombre de «Nerina manuscrito en la cubierta. Qui n es esa mujer sin apellido? Como una poeta cl sica o medieval, o como una enigm tica artista del Renacimiento, Nerina escapa a la historia y a la geograf a. Ap trida, pol glota, culta, escribe en su cuaderno poemas sobre su vida entre Roma, Londres, Calcuta y Boston, sobre su v nculo con el mar, con su familia y con las palabras, y en ellos Jhumpa Lahiri vislumbra una identidad. Entre ella y Nerina, cuya existencia se conf a a los versos y a muy pocas pistas m s, se da la misma relaci n que une a algunos poetas con sus dobles, que a veces fingen ser otros autores, comentan poemas que pretenden no haber escrito o aparentan ser meros lectores. La escritora se convierte en lectora e incluso invoca la intervenci n de una misteriosa erudita para que le ayude a ordenar ese ovillo de estrofas y vidas, que no son las suyas, pero que muy bien podr an ser las nuestras. «Lahiri juega con las identidades como Pessoa, ...] con una geograf a m s sentimental que biogr fi ca, que oscila entre los roles de madre-hija-mujer y las edades de la vida . -L'Espresso ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A one-of-a-kind book by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Hemingway Award, featuring a mysterious poet whose works uncannily mirror the author's own life. Deep in a desk drawer in her house in Rome, the author finds a collection of objects left behind by the previous owners: stamps, a Greek-Italian dictionary, buttons, postcards that were never sent, a photo of three women standing before a window, and a fuchsia notebook with the name "Nerina" written on the cover. Who is this woman with no last name? Like the classical or medieval poets, or an enigmatic Renaissance artist, Nerina transcends the bounds of history and geography. Stateless, polyglot, well-educated, she fills her notebook with poems about a life spent in Rome, London, Calcutta and Boston, about her bond with the sea, her family and words, and in them, an identity begins to take shape. Nerina, whose existence we glimpse only through verse, with very few other clues, has the same relationship to Jhumpa Lahiri as the one between other poets and their alter egos, who can appear in the guise of other authors, comment on poems they claim not to have written themselves, or pass themselves off as just another reader. In this book, author becomes reader, even invoking a mysterious authority to help unravel this tangle of verses and lives that aren't hers, but which could well be ours.

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.

A collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies.'Stimulating, elegant, distinctive and thought-provoking' – The Sunday TimesIn these short stories Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city of Rome, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins.A man recalls a summer party that awakens an alternative version of himself. A couple haunted by a tragic loss return to seek consolation. An outsider family is pushed out of the block in which they hoped to settle. A set of steps in a Roman neighbourhood connects the daily lives of the city’s myriad inhabitants.This is an evocative fresco of Rome, the most alluring character of all: contradictory, in constant transformation and a home to those who know they can’t fully belong but choose it anyway.Rich with Lahiri’s signature gifts, Roman Stories is a masterful work from one of the finest writers of our time.Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies returns with her first short story collection since the publication of her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth--a major literary event and a tour de force Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity. An immigrant family confronts the devastating aftershocks of racial violence. A young couple discovers the joy of domestic comfort and then spirals into unrelenting misfortune. A group of strangers orbit each other unknowingly as they ascend and descend the ancient steps that anchor their neighborhood. An annual garden party sews the seed of a haunting marital betrayal. In story after story, Lahiri delivers her richest and most stirring work yet in a collection whose themes reverberate with the tensions of modern urban life: dislocation and deracination, visibility and invisibility, the difficulty of straddling worlds and cultures, the meaning of home. Roman Stories is a magnificent testament to Lahiri's dazzling style and unalloyed mastery of the short form.

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

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins.A man recalls a summer party that awakens an alternative version of himself. A couple haunted by a tragic loss return to seek consolation. An outsider family is pushed out of the block in which they hoped to settle. A set of steps in a Roman neighbourhood connects the daily lives of the city’s myriad inhabitants. This is an evocative fresco of Rome, the most alluring character of all: contradictory, in constant transformation and a home to those who know they can’t fully belong but choose it anyway.Rich with Lahiri’s signature gifts, Roman Stories is a masterful work from one of the finest writers of our time.Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz

A collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies.'Stimulating, elengant, distinctive and thought-provoking' – Sunday TimesIn these short stories Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city of Rome, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins.A man recalls a summer party that awakens an alternative version of himself. A couple haunted by a tragic loss return to seek consolation. An outsider family is pushed out of the block in which they hoped to settle. A set of steps in a Roman neighbourhood connects the daily lives of the city’s myriad inhabitants.This is an evocative fresco of Rome, the most alluring character of all: contradictory, in constant transformation and a home to those who know they can’t fully belong but choose it anyway.Rich with Lahiri’s signature gifts, Roman Stories is a masterful work from one of the finest writers of our time.Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz

The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth Romemetropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysicalis the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories"A delectable, sun-washed treat . . . the stories have the beating heart of the city itself, a place of magnificent decay and vibrant, varied life." VogueIn The Boundary, one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretakers daughter, who nurses a wound from her familys immigrant past. In Ps Parties, a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friends yearly birthday gatheringuntil 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 Italys 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 Lahiris 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.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR - 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 "A delectable, sun-washed treat . . . the stories have the beating heart of the city itself, a place of magnificent decay and vibrant, varied life." --Vogue 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.

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle’s Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino’s popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question “Why Italian?,” and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri’s most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator’s art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. ‘The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan 'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes…' For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' – after his favourite writer. Brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss… Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's debut novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant, subtle and moving, The Namesake is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies.

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle’s Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino’s popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question “Why Italian?,” and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri’s most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator’s art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb’ SUNDAY TIMES‘A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE'A hypnotic disappearing act' OBSERVERThe new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian cityThe 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.‘An unusual literary and linguistic feat' NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. "Another masterstroke in a career already filled with them." --O, the Oprah MagazineExuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life's journey, realizes that she's lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone. We follow her to the pool she frequents, and to the train station that leads to her mother, who is mired in her own solitude after her husband's untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman's path are colleagues with whom she feels ill at ease, casual acquaintances, and "him," a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. Until one day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change. This is the first novel Lahiri has written in Italian and translated into English. The reader will find the qualities that make Lahiri's work so beloved: deep intelligence and feeling, richly textured physical and emotional landscapes, and a poetics of dislocation. But Whereabouts, brimming with the impulse to cross barriers, also signals a bold shift of style and sensibility. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.