001492491 000__ 04431cam\\2200697\i\4500 001492491 001__ 1492491 001492491 003__ OCoLC 001492491 005__ 20240613003417.0 001492491 008__ 221125t20232023nyu\\\\e\\\\\\000\j\eng\\ 001492491 010__ $$a2022052100 001492491 019__ $$a1400058099$$a1406809698$$a1407434505$$a1410830515$$a1411853010$$a1428483369$$a1434117832 001492491 020__ $$a9780593536322$$q(hardcover) 001492491 020__ $$a0593536320$$q(hardcover) 001492491 020__ $$a9781524712600$$q(international edition : paperback) 001492491 020__ $$a1524712604$$q(international edition : paperback) 001492491 020__ $$z9780593536339$$q(electronic book) 001492491 0243_ $$a9780593536322 001492491 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1362499403 001492491 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dOCLCF$$dJAS$$dRNL$$dOQX$$dIMT$$dYDX$$dZGR$$dICK$$dETC$$dMWD$$dLMJ$$dQGK$$dKYC$$dSINLB$$dOCLCO$$dDAC$$dRB0$$dGSU$$dFTP$$dOCLCQ 001492491 0411_ $$aeng$$hita 001492491 042__ $$apcc 001492491 043__ $$ae-it--- 001492491 049__ $$aISEA 001492491 05000 $$aPQ5984.L34$$bR3313 2023 001492491 08200 $$a853/.92$$223/eng/20230323 001492491 1001_ $$aLahiri, Jhumpa,$$eauthor,$$etranslator. 001492491 24010 $$aRacconti romani.$$lEnglish 001492491 24510 $$aRoman stories /$$cJhumpa Lahiri ; translated from the Italian by the author with Todd Portnowitz. 001492491 250__ $$aFirst United States edition. 001492491 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bAlfred A. Knopf,$$c2023. 001492491 264_4 $$c©2023 001492491 300__ $$a204 pages ;$$c22 cm 001492491 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001492491 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 001492491 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 001492491 500__ $$a"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso. 001492491 500__ $$aOriginally published in hardcover as Racconti roman, an imprint of Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol, Milan, in 2022. 001492491 50500 $$gPart I.$$tThe boundary --$$tThe reentry --$$tP's parties --$$tWell-lit house --$$gPart II.$$tThe steps --$$gPart III.$$tThe delivery --$$tThe procession --$$tNotes --$$tDante Alighieri. 001492491 520__ $$a"In "The Boundary," a family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker's daughter, who nurses a wound from her family's immigrant past. In "PP's Parties," a Roman couple, now empty nesters, find comfort and community with foreigners at their friend's yearly birthday gathering until the husband crosses a line. And in "The Steps," on a public staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy's capital in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with the tensions of a changing city: visibilityy and invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home." 001492491 520__ $$a"Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--$$cProvided by publisher. 001492491 520__ $$aRome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories: the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth. In "The Boundary," one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker's daughter, who nurses a wound from her family's immigrant past. In "P's Parties," a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend's yearly birthday gathering--until the husband crosses a line. And in "The Steps," on a public staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy's capital in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with the tensions of a changing visibility and invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home. 001492491 520__ $$a"These are splendid, searching stories, written in Jhumpa Lahiri's adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz. Stories steeped in the moods of Italian master Alberto Moravia and guided, in the concluding tale, by the ineluctable ghost of Dante Alighieri, whose words lead the protagonist toward a new way of life." --$$cPublisher's description. 001492491 650_0 $$aInterpersonal relations$$vFiction. 001492491 651_0 $$aRome (Italy)$$vFiction. 001492491 651_0 $$aRome (Italy)$$xSocial life and customs$$vFiction. 001492491 655_0 $$aShort stories. 001492491 655_0 $$aPsychological fiction. 001492491 655_7 $$aPsychological fiction.$$2lcgft 001492491 655_7 $$aShort stories.$$2lcgft 001492491 7001_ $$aPortnowitz, Todd,$$d1986-$$etranslator. 001492491 77608 $$iOnline version:$$aLahiri, Jhumpa.$$tRoman stories.$$bFirst United States edition$$dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023$$z9780593536339$$w(DLC) 2022052101 001492491 852__ $$bgen 001492491 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1492491$$pGLOBAL_SET 001492491 980__ $$aBIB 001492491 980__ $$aBOOK 001492491 994__ $$aC0$$bISE