Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri
Category: Novel
Narrator: Susan Vinciotti Bonito
Tags: Novel, General Fiction, Literature, Adults
Exuberance 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 lifes journey, realizes that shes 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 husbands untimely death. Among those who appear on this womans 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 suns vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change., This is the first novel Lahiri has written in Italian and translated into English. The listener will find the qualities
