Jhumpa Lahiri

Un ni o de padres bengal es, nacionalidad estadounidense y nombre ruso en busca de un lugar, una voz y un nombre. La primera novela de la aclamada autora de El int rprete del dolor. Tras la lenta recuperaci n de un terrible accidente ferroviario y un matrimonio arreglado con la joven Ashima, Ashoke Ganguli decide abandonar su c moda y previsible existencia en Calcuta, aceptar una beca en el Instituto Tecnol gico de Massachusetts y mudarse con su esposa a Boston. All nacer su primer hijo, que por azares del destino acabar llevando por nombre G gol en honor al c lebre escritor ruso. El ni o, hijo de bengal es, ciudadano estadounidense y de nombre ruso, crecer entre korma y hamburguesas, m sica de los Beatles y clases de bengal , viajes a Calcuta, donde a l y a su hermana se los considera extranjeros, y ritos hind es celebrados en suelo estadounidense; pero, sobre todo, crecer extra ado y perplejo ante su propio nombre. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along a first-generation path strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade--about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. 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 life's journey, realizes that she's 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 husband's untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman's 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 sun's vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change. This is the first novel Lahiri has written in Italian and translated into English. The reader will find the qualities that make Lahiri's work so beloved: deep intelligence and feeling, richly textured physical and emotional landscapes, and a poetics of dislocation. But Whereabouts, brimming with the impulse to cross barriers, also signals a bold shift of style and sensibility. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.

Desde los a os sesenta hasta el presente, y desde la India hasta Am rica y a trav s de las generaciones, La hondonada es una apasionante saga familiar cargada de historia. Desde la publicación de su primera colección de relatos -ganadora del Premio Pulitzer el año 2000-, la trayectoria literaria de Jhumpa Lahiri ha ido en continuo ascenso, hasta el punto de que hoy ocupa un lugar incuestionable en el selecto grupo de los autores contemporáneos más destacados en lengua inglesa. Si su anterior obra, Tierra desacostumbrada, multiplicó el número de sus entusiastas lectores -fue considerado mejor libro de 2008 por The New York Times y se vendieron más de 700 mil ejemplares sólo en Estados Unidos-, esta nueva novela ha vuelto a concitar la admiración de la crítica y ha sido finalista del Premio Booker y del National Book Award. Los hermanos Subhash y Udayan viven en un humilde barrio de Calcuta donde, durante la temporada de lluvias, un lecho seco entre dos lagunas se transforma en un gran espejo de agua. Allí, en la hondonada, transcurre su infancia, jugando al fútbol o nadando, a merced de la naturaleza. Pero la hondonada es algo más que un pedazo de tierra. Es el vacío en el corazón de los hermanos cuando empiezan a crecer y sus caminos se separan de forma inexorable, uno en la India y el otro en Rhode Island. Años después, cuando la tragedia irrumpe en sus vidas, Subhash regresa a su país con la esperanza de recomponer una familia desgarrada a consecuencia de los actos de Udayan, que afectarán a los destinos de su joven esposa, de sus padres y de su hermano mayor. Cr ticas: «Su obra m s ambiciosa hasta la fecha; un desbordamiento de dolor, amor y de toda la profunda belleza que alberga la vida. -The Oprah Magazine «El talento de Lahiri brilla en su prosa l rica y contenida, y en una narraci n que avanza cronol gicamente a la vez que emergen unos recuerdos que sobreviven al paso del tiempo. Un libro formidable, bell simo. -Publishers Weekly «Emocionante ...]. Su sigilosa intensidad nos recuerda a la exultante ficci n de Alice Munro y William Trevor. -Newsday «Lahiri es una estilista elegante, capaz de colocar sin esfuerzo aparente las palabras perfectas en el orden perfecto una y otra vez, hasta el punto de conducirnos sin que nos demos cuenta a un lugar en el que nunca hemos estado. -Vanity Fair DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - A Time Top Fiction Book - An NPR "Great Read" - A Chicago Tribune Best Book - A USA Today Best Book - A People magazine Top 10 Book - A Barnes and Noble Best New Book - A Good Reads Best Book - A Kirkus Best Fiction Book - A Slate Favorite Book - A Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book - An Apple Top 10 Book National Book Award Finalist and shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize The Lowland is an engrossing family saga steeped in history: the story of two very different brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn apart by revolution, and a love that endures long past death. Moving from the 1960s to the present, and from India to America and across generations, this dazzling novel is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. A latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman from Calcutta. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times) Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world -- conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. "Dazzling... An intimate, closely observed family portrait."--The New York Times "Hugely appealing."--People Magazine "An exquisitely detailed family saga."--Entertainment Weekly

Una oda al lenguaje y a su inherente poder para definir nuestra identidad y, a la postre, modelar nuestra forma de ser y de relacionarnos. C mo es posible que me sienta exiliada de una lengua que no es la m a, una lengua que no s ? Tal vez porque soy una escritora que no pertenece del todo a ninguna lengua. El impacto que supuso para Jhumpa Lahiri el contacto directo con el italiano durante su primera visita a Florencia tras acabar los estudios universitarios fue el comienzo de un largo cortejo que, con el tiempo, se ha convertido en una honda pasi n por un idioma que le es extra amente familiar y que le despierta un irreprimible deseo de aprehenderlo y hacerlo suyo. El primer libro en italiano de una autora de lengua materna bengal , pero que siempre ha hablado y escrito en ingl s, es el testimonio de un tenaz recorrido de descubrimiento y aprendizaje en pos de un objetivo irracional. Una obsesi n que Lahiri compara con el amor no correspondido, porque atesora en sus p ginas el fascinante eco de una distancia: la que siempre nos separa del objeto amado. As pues, Jhumpa Lahiri plasma con exquisita lucidez la adquisici n de un idioma ajeno, describiendo el proceso como un per odo de transici n, de p rdida y liberaci n, de tensiones y regeneraci n, que le permite convertirse en una escritora distinta. La cr tica ha dicho... «Pocas veces hemos le do reflexiones tan emocionantes sobre la belleza de la lengua italiana; algunas p ginas recuerdan tambi n, en su desaz n, pasajes de Nabokov. -Gabriele Pedull , Il Sole 24 Ore «Metamorfosis de una mujer, metamorfosis de una escritora, metamorfosis de un estilo. ...] Lahiri interpreta la metamorfosis como un camino existencial que lleva de la muerte al renacimiento. En esta fase de transici n, su prosa elegante y precisa, tan rica en im genes simb licas y evocadoras, acaba despojada de todas las impurezas al encontrarse con el idioma italiano, revelando una insondable profundidad. -Panorama «Precioso. ...] Un autorretrato absolutamente singular. -The New York Times Book Review ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut--an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." --Kirkus Reviews (starred) In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story--of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write--initially in her journal--solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.

HIS LIFE WAS FULL OF ACCIDENTS; IT STARTED WITH THE ACCIDENT TO HIS FATHER S TRAIN. THAT ACCIDENT BESTOWED THE NAME GOGOL UPON HIM. THEY COULD NEVER KNOW THE NAME HIS GREAT GRANDMOTHER HAD SELECTED FOR HIM. HER LETTER WAS LOST DURING THE JOURNEY FROM KOLKATA TO CAMBRIDGE. HE HAD TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. WHEN IT WAS TIME TO DECIDE ON HIS NAME, HIS FATHER REMEMBERED THE ACCIDENT WHICH WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM, BUT THE BOOK HAD SAVED HIM, GOGOL S BOOK; HENCE HE WAS GIVEN THE NAME. BUT THIS VERY NAME HARASSED HIM FOR MANY YEARS. WHEN HE WAS QUITE OLD, HE CHANGED HIS NAME BUT STILL THE CONSEQUENCES ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED HIM, THROUGHOUT. WE NEVER KNOW OUR FUTURE. EVERYTHING HAPPENS ALL OF A SUDDEN. WE CANNOT PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THE HAPPENINGS. WE CARRY FORWARD THE BALANCE OF THESE PAST EVENTS AND LEAD OUR LIFE THROUGH THE FUTURE. WHEN WE TRY TO FIND OUT THE HIDDEN MEANINGS OF THE PAST, THEN WE REALIZE THAT LIFE IS FULL OF EVENTS WHICH SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED AT ALL OR WHICH HAVE A MEANING TO THEM OF WHICH WE ARE NEVER AWARE.

_______________'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York Times'A fascinating account of her linguistic exile' - Erica Wagner, Harper’s Bazaar_______________In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterwards, true mastery had always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decided to move to Rome with her family, for ‘a trial by fire, a sort of baptism’ into a new language and world. There, she began to read and to write – initially in her journal – solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.

How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, “the covers become a part of me.”

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian--and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. - "The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read." --The Washington Post On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in her adopted tongue. In Other Words is a startling act of self-reflection.

A deeply personal reflection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Namesake that explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. How do you clothe a book? Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, "the covers become a part of me."

Subhash og Udayan Mitra er brødre. De er uadskillelige, men også meget forskellige. Subhash er den forsigtige, stille og pligtopfyldende storebror, som adlyder forældrene og klarer sig godt i skolen. Udayan er den vilde, stædige og charmerende lillebror, som også er modig og exceptionelt intelligent. Vi befinder os i 1960'erne, og Udayan bliver tiltrukket af den revolutionære naxalit-bevægelse. Han er klar til at sætte alt på spil for det han tror på. Subhash deler ikke sin brors politiske lidenskab og han forlader Indien for at forfølge sine akademiske ambitioner i USA. Men da Subhash får at vide at hans bror er blevet dræbt, rejser han tilbage til Indien i et forsøg på at finde ud af hvad der egentlig skete og for at samle stumperne af sin sønderknuste familie. «Betagende ... Fyldt til randen med smerte og kærlighed og al livets skønhed.» – THE OPRAH MAGAZINE «Lahiris bedste bog indtil nu ... På en gang foruroligende og generøs.» – THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Tarina hajoavasta perheestä ja rakkauden voimasta Palkitun kirjailijan uusi teos on tarina veljistä kahden maailman välillä, naisesta kahden miehen välillä ja rakkaudesta, joka yltää yli kuoleman. Veljekset Subhash ja Udayan ovat lapsina erottamattomat. Vuodet kuitenkin vievät heitä erilleen, ja 1960-luvulla, vallankumouksen repimässä Intiassa, Udayan päätyy kommunistiseen liikkeeseen. Subhash taas muuttaa Amerikkaan, kapitalismin ytimeen. Veljesten elämässä on viehättävä nainen, Gauri, jota menneisyys ei jätä rauhaan ja jota molemmat veljet vuorollaan rakastavat. Vuosikymmenien ja maanosien läpi liikkuva tarina kuvaa, kuinka perhesiteet lopulta määrittelevät, keitä olemme.