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Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri - translator, Todd Portnowitz - translator
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campbell, Deepti Gupta, Michael Obiora
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'Stimulating, elengant, distinctive and thought-provoking' Sunday Times

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. 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.

Rich with Lahiri’s signature gifts, Roman Stories is a masterful work from one of the finest writers of our time.

Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz

©2023 Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz (P)2023 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
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Suspenseful life stories by real people in every day circumstances .

A magnificent book of personal stories, which tale place in the myriad of people who live in Rome, but transcending to everyman… anywhere. It is always awaiting and welcoming the reader/listener to where they find themselves in life’s voyage seeking identity, meaning, significance…. Planting our stories in the soil of ethos, circumstances and decision making, along with love in its many forms, its meaning and misunderstanding.
Beautiful prose mixed with the many and intricate dimensions of literature, culture and language to create intriguing environments for interior and exterior discovery, from the intrinsic and extrinsic.

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