A collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Interpreter of Maladies.#39Stimulating, elengant, distinctive and thoughtprovoking#39 ndash 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 cityrsquos 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 canrsquot fully belong but choose it anyway.Rich with Lahirirsquos 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

Binding: Hardcover;224 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FYB; Weight: 464 g; Dimensions: 143 x 224 x 24

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