Jhumpa Lahiri

Broschiertes Buch

The Namesake

Beschreibung

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)

Autor

JHUMPA LAHIRI, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies and is also the author of The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, The Lowland. Since 2015, Lahiri has been writing fiction, essays, and poetry in Italian: In Altre Parole (In Other Words), Il Vestito dei libri (The Clothing of Books), Dove mi trovo (self-translated as Whereabouts), Il quaderno di Nerina, and Racconti romani (Roman Stories). She received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2014, and in 2019 was named Commendatore of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella. Her most recent book in English, Translating Myself and Others, was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. 

Produktdetails

• Mariner Books Classics
• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780358062684
• ISBN-10: 0358062683
• Artikelnr.: 53447032