Large Print Book

Whereabouts / Jhumpa Lahiri, written in Italian and translated by the author.

ISBN: 9780593396629
ISBN: 0593396626
Physical Description: 201 pages (large print) ; 21 cm
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2021]
Copyright: &copy;2021

Lahiri, Jhumpa, (author,, translator.).

Summary:

An English translation of a first Italian-language novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Lowland" follows the routines of a misfit city dweller who experiences a year of remarkable transformation in the aftermath of a parent's death

A woman wavers between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. The train station 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 transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change. -- adapted from back cover