Description
Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city of Rome, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins.
A man recalls a summer party that awakens an alternative version of himself. A couple haunted by a tragic loss return to seek consolation. An outsider family is pushed out of the block in which they hoped to settle. A set of steps in a Roman neighbourhood connects the daily lives of the city’s myriad inhabitants.
This is an evocative fresco of Rome, the most alluring character of all—contradictory, in constant transformation, and a home to those who know they can’t fully belong but choose it anyway.
Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz
Endorsements
“Stimulating, elegant, distinctive and thought-provoking” — Sunday Times
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Interpreter of Maladies
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