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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

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'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph

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.

'An enticing collection . . . the tales are by turns startling, moving, intriguing and provocative' The Times Literary Supplement

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Product Details
  • Weight: 362g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241299852

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Jhumpa Lahiri is an award-winning author and translator. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies her debut story collection and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2015. Her other works of fiction in English include The Lowland which was a finalist for the Man Booker prize. Lahiri has also written three books directly in Italian including In altre parole (translated in English as In Other Words) and the novel Dove mi trovo. Her translation of Domenico Starnone's Trick was a Finalist for the National Book Award. She divides her time between Rome and Princeton University where she is a professor of Creative Writing and Literary Translation

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