Jhumpa Lahiri

Un niño de padres bengalíes, nacionalidad estadounidense y nombre ruso en busca de un lugar, una voz y un nombre. La primera novela de la aclamada autora de El intérprete del dolor. Tras la lenta recuperacion de un terrible accidente ferroviario y un matrimonio arreglado con la joven Ashima, Ashoke Ganguli decide abandonar su comoda y previsible existencia en Calcuta, aceptar una beca en el Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts y mudarse con su esposa a Boston. Alli nacera su primer hijo, que por azares del destino acabara llevando por nombre Gogol en honor al celebre escritor ruso. El niño, hijo de bengalies, ciudadano estadounidense y de nombre ruso, crecera entre korma y hamburguesas, musica de los Beatles y clases de bengali, viajes a Calcuta, donde a el y a su hermana se los considera extranjeros, y ritos hindues celebrados en suelo estadounidense; pero, sobre todo, crecera extrañado y perplejo ante su propio nombre.La critica ha dicho:Extraordinario... un libro que convierte en oro la paja de la vida cotidiana. La prosa calmada y gracil, las vastas extensiones de escritura cristalina, el elegante tono pianissimo...todo lleva al lector de principio a fin, formando un arco nitido. Cada detalle, cada observacion, cada frase brilla con la claridad de la verdad. El buen nombre es una novela que nos hace sentir privilegiados de tener acceso a su mundo, inmensamente empatico.The TimesLa clase de escritor que te hace querer agarrar a la persona que tienes al lado y decir "¡Lea esto!".Amy Tan Una prosa refinada, gracil y empatica... cada uno de los personajes de Lahiri teje su propia identidad, lo que hace que esta resonante historia no seaunicamente asiatica ni unicamente estadounidense, sino tierna e ironicamente humana.Hephzibah Anderson, The Observer

Vuelve la mejor Jhumpa Lahiri, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y aclamada por sus «historias simples y sutiles, sembradas con sentimientos inesperados, como un campo de minas» (Pedro Almodóvar) Una fami

Ópera prima con la que la escritora indo-norteamericana inició su fulgurante trayectoria literaria, una colección de relatos lleno de emociones y desasosiegos. Los nueve relatos que componen este libro revelan la maestria de Lahiri para trazar una compleja cartografia emocional, la de una serie de personajes que en su busqueda de la felicidad traspasan fronteras geograficas, culturales y generacionales. Ambientadas tanto en la India como en Estados Unidos, estas historias despliegan la riqueza y la profundidad de la mirada de Lahiri, capaz de detectar los mas sutiles conflictos en las relaciones humanas y plasmarlos con una delicadeza incisiva y conmovedora. Nadie que, por cualquier motivo imaginable, se haya sentido alguna vez en su vida extraño y alienado del mundo podra evitar darse por aludido en estos relatos. Asi pues, en estas paginas soberbias, Jhumpa Lahiri plasma un complejo tapiz de emociones y desasosiegos, una incursion a la intimidad de las personas que, indefectiblemente, resulta cautivadora por su belleza, su poder de evocacion y la perennidad de su discurso.La critica ha dicho...Me encantaria ser capaz de escribir historias como las que contiene esa joya llamada El interprete del dolor. Historias simples y sutiles, sembradas con sentimientos inesperados, como un campo de minas.Pedro Almodovar Una voz maravillosamentepersonal [...]. La escritura de Lahiri es tan diestra y elocuente que el lector se olvida de que El interprete del dolor es el primer libro de un autor joven. [...] Lahiri es una escritora de una elegancia y un aplomo extraordinarios.The New York Times Tras leer algo de Jhumpa Lahiri, te dan ganas de parar a la primera persona que te cruzas y decirle: -¡Lee esto!- [...] Posee una voz inconfundible,buen ojo para los matices y oido para la ironia. Es uno de los mejores escritores de relatos que he leido.Amy Tan Lahiri tiene el don de desentrañar el significado de las relaciones breves: entre amantes, amigos, personas a las que conocemos en un viaje.Time Una escritora de rara sensibilidad y concision.The Wall Street JournalLahiri insufla vida en cada pagina, y el lector acaba todos los relatos doblemente seducido, deseando poder compartir una novela entera con esos personajes.The New York Times Book Review Jhumpa Lahiri escribe con una prosa tan directa y translucida que uno casi se olvida de que esta leyendo [...]. La fuerza de este excepcional primer libro de relatos proviene fundamentalmente de su delicada voz narrativa.Newsweek

Desde los años sesenta hasta el presente, y desde la India hasta América y a través de las generaciones, La hondonada es una apasionante saga familiar cargada de historia.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. Alli, en la hondonada, transcurre su infancia, jugando al futbol o nadando, a merced de la naturaleza. Pero la hondonada es algo mas que un pedazo de tierra. Es el vacio en el corazon 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 despues, cuando la tragedia irrumpe en sus vidas, Subhash regresa a su pais con la esperanza de recomponer una familia desgarrada a consecuencia de los actos de Udayan, que afectaran a los destinos de su joven esposa, de sus padres y de su hermano mayor.La critica ha dicho...Su obra mas ambiciosa hasta la fecha; un desbordamiento de dolor, amor y de toda la profunda belleza que alberga la vida.O, The Oprah MagazineEl talento de Lahiri brilla en su prosa lirica y contenida, y en una narracion que avanza cronologicamente a la vez que emergen unos recuerdos que sobreviven al paso del tiempo. Un libro formidable, bellisimo.Publishers WeeklyEmocionante [...]. Su sigilosa intensidad nos recuerda a la exultante ficcion de Alice Munro y William Trevor.NewsdayLahiri 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

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.¿Cómo es posible que me sienta exiliada de una lengua que no es la mia, una lengua que no se? 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 pasion por un idioma que le es extrañamente familiar y que le despierta un irreprimible deseo de aprehenderlo y hacerlo suyo.El primer libro en italiano de una autora de lengua materna bengali, pero que siempre ha hablado y escrito en ingles, es el testimonio de un tenaz recorrido de descubrimiento y aprendizaje en pos de un objetivo irracional. Una obsesion que Lahiri compara con el amor no correspondido, porque atesora en sus paginas el fascinante eco de una distancia: la que siempre nos separa del objeto amado.Asi pues, Jhumpa Lahiri plasma con exquisita lucidez la adquisicion de un idioma ajeno, describiendo el proceso como un periodo de transicion, de perdida y liberacion, de tensiones y regeneracion, que le permite convertirse en una escritora distinta.La critica ha dicho... Pocas veces hemos leido reflexiones tan emocionantes sobre la belleza de la lengua italiana; algunas paginas recuerdan tambien, en su desazon, pasajes de Nabokov. Gabriele Pedulla, Il Sole 24 OreMetamorfosis 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 transicion, su prosa elegante y precisa, tan rica en imagenes simbolicas y evocadoras, acaba despojada de todas las impurezas al encontrarse con el idioma italiano, revelando una insondable profundidad.PanoramaPrecioso. [...] Un autorretrato absolutamente singular.The New York Times Book Review

If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES'A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE'A hypnotic disappearing act' OBSERVERThe new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian cityThe woman moves through the city, her city, on her own.She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded square.Sometimes her steps take her to her grieving mother, sealed off in her own solitude. Sometimes they take her to the station, where the trains can spirit her away for a short while.But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change forever.A rare work of fiction, Whereabouts - first written in Italian and then translated by the author herself - brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. A dazzling evocation of a city, its captures a woman standing on one of life's thresholds, reflecting on what has been lost and facing, with equal hope and rage, what may lie ahead.

A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates; a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homeland... Jhumpa Lahiris prose is beautifully measured, subtle and sober, and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid, but this work is rich in observational detail, evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here), and full of emotional pull and reverberation.

Questa e la storia di un colpo di fulmine, di un lungo corteggiamento, di una passione profonda: quella di una scrittrice per una lingua straniera. Jhumpa Lahiri e una giovane neolaureata quando visita per la prima volta Firenze; appena sente parlare l''italiano capisce che le e stranamente familiare, che le e necessario e deve apprenderlo. Non sa spiegarsi il perche di un simile, repentino bisogno, ma sa che fara di tutto per soddisfarlo. Dapprima prova a studiare l''italiano nella sua citta, New York, con una serie di insegnanti private, ma non basta. Anche le brevi visite successive, a Mantova, Milano, Venezia, non la appagano: vuole immergersi completamente nella realta della nuova lingua. Si trasferisce a Roma, con tutta la famiglia. E li comincia la vera avventura, fatta di slanci, entusiasmo e insieme di difficolta ed estraniamento. "In altre parole" e il primo libro che nasce direttamente in italiano da un''autrice di madrelingua bengalese che ha sempre parlato e scritto in inglese. È la testimonianza di un tenace percorso di scoperta e di apprendimento e di un obiettivo, raggiunto, di potenza e fluidita espressiva, ancora piu preziosa perche conserva tra le righe l''eco affascinante di una distanza, quella che sempre ci separa dall''oggetto d''amore: la distanza impercettibile e infinita del desiderio. Tutti i capitoli che compongono il libro, tranne l''ultimo, sono stati precedentemente pubblicati, in una prima versione sotto forma di articoli, su "Internazionale".

From Subhashs earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brothers sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. Udayan charismatic and impulsive finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him.

National Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death. Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayancharismatic and impulsivefinds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brothers political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their familys home, he goes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behindincluding those seared in the heart of his brothers wife. Masterly suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers. From the Hardcover edition.

From Subhashs earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brothers sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. Udayan charismatic and impulsive finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him.

Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth follows new lives forged in the wake of loss. These are stories in which deeply sympathetic characters reach pivotal moments in their frayed relationships and are forced to navigate their way in unfamiliar landscapes. In the title story the death of a mother leaves a space neither daughter nor husband knows how to fill. In ''Only Goodness'' a younger brother''s spiralling alcoholism threatens to destroy his loyal sister''s family. And in a trio of linked stories we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one memorable winter, share a house in suburban Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until they are brought together years later in a chance meeting in Rome. With moving compassion Lahiri traces a series of transformations: weariness into hope, secrets into sacrifices, and grief into unforeseen love. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any she has yet written - explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience, taking us from America to Europe, India and Thailand.Infused with eloquent warmth and lyrical simplicity, Unaccustomed Earth confirms Jhumpa Lahiri''s status as a storyteller of unrivalled empathy.

From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prizewinning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight storieslonger and more emotionally complex than any she has yet writtenthat take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But hes harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair hes keeping all to himself. In A Choice of Accommodations, a husbands attempt to turn an old friends wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In Only Goodness, a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in Hema and Kaushik, a trio of linked storiesa luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fatewe follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with Jhumpa Lahiris signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers.

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.

Indienne, Anglaise, Américaine... Je n''ai jamais su répondre à la question : "D''où êtes-vous?" affirme Jhumpa Lahiri. Couronnée par le prix Pulitzer pour son premier livre, L''Interprète des maladi

Hema und Kaushik lernen sich als Jugendliche in Massachusetts kennen. Ihre Eltern, die aus Bengalen stammen, sind befreundet sie selbst können wenig miteinander anfangen. Dazu ist der ältere Kaushik, der den Krebstod seiner Mutter verarbeiten muss, viel zu in sich gekehrt. Hema himmelt ihn erfolglos von ferne an. Fast zwanzig Jahre später begegnen sie sich zufällig in Rom: Hema, nach zehnjährigem Geliebtendasein, auf der letzten Flucht vor einer Vernunftehe in Kalkutta, Kaushik am Ende einer Fotojournalistenkarriere in den Krisengebieten dieser Erde. Heimatlos sind sie beide, kulturell wie geistig - weltgewandt und doch getrieben. Eine jähe, wilde Liebe schlägt sie in den Bann und verheißt einen Hafen, doch ein dunkler italienischer Herbst wirft seine Schatten voraus... Die Pulitzerpreisträgerin und US-Bestsellerautorin Jhumpa Lahiri entfaltet in dieser Liebesgeschichte eine ganze Welt voll schicksalhafter Dramatik, mit einer Prosa von suggestiver Eleganz und größtem Feingefühl. Die US-Ausgabe rief Begeisterungsstürme in der Presse hervor und stand bereits in der Woche nach dem Erscheinen auf Platz eins der Bestsellerliste.

From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize?winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written--that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he''s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he''s keeping all to himself. In "A Choice of Accommodations," a husband''s attempt to turn an old friend''s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In ?Only Goodness,? a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in ?Hema and Kaushik,? a trio of linked stories?a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate?we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with Jhumpa Lahiri''s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers.