Great Italian Stories
10 Parallel Texts
$22.94
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2024
Summary
This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the original Italian alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary inspiration for language learners.
Ranging from a spellbinding tale of the supernatural to a powerful portrait of post-war Italy, this revelatory collection includes works f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241634455 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241634458 |
| Author: | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 127mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Parallel Texts |
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri is a bilingual writer and translator. She is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies. Her other works include The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, The Lowland, and Translating Myself and Others.
Since 2015, Lahiri has been writing fiction, essays, and poetry in Italian. She has also translated three novels by Domenico Starnone and is the editor of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories.
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