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'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph
Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many captivating rediscoveries.
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.
'An enticing collection . . . the tales are by turns startling, moving, intriguing and provocative' The Times Literary Supplement
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph
Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many captivating rediscoveries.
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.
'An enticing collection . . . the tales are by turns startling, moving, intriguing and provocative' The Times Literary Supplement
Jhumpa Lahiri is an award-winning author and translator. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2015. Her other works of fiction in English include The Lowland, which was a finalist for the Man Booker prize.
Lahiri has also written three books directly in Italian, including In altre parole (translated in English as In Other Words) and the novel Dove mi trovo. Her translation of Domenico Starnone's Trick was a Finalist for the National Book Award. She divides her time between Rome and Princeton University, where she is a professor of Creative Writing and Literary Translation
SELECTION AND INTRODUCTION BY JHUMPA LAHIRI, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, and who, after falling in love with the Italian language, now reads exclusively in Italian.
FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH for 40% of the stories.
SIX OF THE 40 STORIES ARE TRANSLATED BY JHUMPA LAHIRI.
IMPRESSIVE RANGE: It spans more than a hundred years of Italian literature and brings together well-known names alongside many rediscoveries.
FERRANTE EFFECT: The success of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels has boosted media and reader interest in Italian lit. This paperback edition of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories comes out on the heels of the publication of Ferrante's latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults (Europa, June 2020).
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780241299852 |
| ISBN-10: | 0241299853 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Lahiri, Jhumpa |
| Redaktion: | Lahiri, Jhumpa |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 198 x 132 x 30 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.09.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,355 kg |
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