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Een in de Verenigde Staten geboren zoon van Indiase ouders, die hem zeer Indiaas opvoeden, ervaart dat hij zijn Indiase afkomst niet zomaar kan negeren.

De broers Subhash en Udayan zijn als kind onafschei­delijk. Maar hun band blijkt niet bestand tegen de maatschappelijke spanningen van de jaren zestig. De charismatische Udayan raakt in de ban van een groep radicale communisten. Hij zet daarbij alles op het spel: zijn eigen leven en dat van zijn broer, zijn ouders en zelfs zijn jonge bruid. In de hoop de dramatische gebeurtenissen achter zich te laten vertrekt Subhash naar Amerika, maar de terugslag van zijn daden weerklinkt nog generaties lang door.

In acht opmerkelijke verhalen, waarbij ze de lezer meeneemt van Amerika naar Europa, India en Thailand, onderzoekt Jhumpa Lahiri de complexiteit van familiebanden en het leven tussen twee culturen. Alle personages in deze bundel hebben iets verloren - liefde, geliefden, geborgenheid - en zijn daardoor gedwongen hun weg te zoeken op onbekend terrein. Zo laat een moeder na haar dood een leegte na die haar dochter noch haar man weten te vullen en beseft een dertigjarige man tijdens de bruiloft van zijn jeugdliefde dat zijn huwelijk voorbij is.

Sgomento ed esuberanza , radicamento ed estraneità : i temi di Jhumpa Lahiri in questo libro raggiungono un vertice. La donna al centro della storia oscilla tra immobilità e movimento, tra la ricerca di identificazione con un luogo e il rifiuto, allo stesso tempo, di creare legami permanenti. La città in cui abita, e che la incanta, è lo sfondo vivo delle sue giornate, quasi un interlocutore privilegiato: i marciapiedi intorno a casa, i giardini, i ponti, le piazze, le strade, i negozi, i bar, la piscina che la accoglie e le stazioni che ogni tanto la portano più lontano, a trovare la madre, immersa in una solitudine senza rimedio dopo la morte precoce del padre. E poi ci sono i colleghi di lavoro in mezzo ai quali non riesce ad ambientarsi, le amiche, gli amici, e «lui», un’ombra che la conforta e la turba. Fino al momento del passaggio. Nell’arco di un anno e nel susseguirsi delle stagioni, la donna arriverà a un «risveglio», in un giorno di mare e di sole pieno che le farà sentire con forza il calore della vita, del sangue. Questo è il primo romanzo di Jhumpa Lahiri scritto in italiano, con il desiderio di oltrepassare un confine e di innestarsi in una nuova lingua letteraria, andando sempre più al largo.

In this novel, a couple exchange confessions during nightly blackouts in a Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss.

Exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collection of eight stories includes the title work, about a young mother in a new city whose father tends her garden while hiding a secret love affair.

Xavier Zimbardo's stunning work captures the mystery, beauty, and spirituality of India through a remarkable collection of four-color photography taken over fifteen years. This extraordinary volume offers an intimate portrait of a people whose sacred rituals and way of life are among the most fascinating in the world. The oversized book features a hundred vibrant, light-filled photographs, showcasing the textile-dyeing factories of Rajasthan with their streams of jewel-like fabrics in hues from aquamarine to ruby red. It also depicts the great camel fairs of Pushkar Mela, where caravans traverse the desert, and the sculptural elegance of Chinese fishing nets in Cochin, Kerala, against a violet twilight sky. Zimbardo reveals the many facets of India with a passionate eye, making this work a treasure for photography and travel enthusiasts, as well as those interested in Indian culture. The volume includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri, a prefatory text by the author detailing his experiences and artistic process, and insightful captions that illuminate Indian culture. This evocative book not only captures the essence of a place but also reflects the range of human emotion.

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.

'The Namesake' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America. '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 much-anticipated first 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'.

The Cahiers Series is delighted to publish a newly commissioned work by renowned bilingual Jhumpa Lahiri who for three years has been collaborating with her friend the classicist Yelena Baraz on a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into English. From among the elements of transformation that have spoken to her directly and intimately she has chosen to focus here on stones: stones that turn into human beings; and, later, human beings - silenced, stilled, petrified - who will turn into stone. The connotations of stone - of rock, of pebble - pose questions of origin and destiny, immobility and unsettledness, living and dying. Lahiri's text on translation-as-metamorphosis and the protean self resonates alongside the dynamic and colourful paintings of celebrated artist Jamie Nares. These extend the exploration of metamorphosis by questioning, beautifully, the relation of the permanent to the ephemeral, the necessary to the aleatory, the completed art work to the human gesture that created it.