Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 05/03/2020
ISBN: 9780241299852
Length: 528 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 362g
RRP: £12.99
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph
Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many captivating rediscoveries.
Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society.
'An enticing collection . . . the tales are by turns startling, moving, intriguing and provocative' The Times Literary Supplement
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 05/03/2020
ISBN: 9780241299852
Length: 528 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 362g
RRP: £12.99
A fantastically rich - and beautiful - anthology that's teaching me a lot
A feast . . . her choice of 40 authors embraces familiar greats and sows them with fascinating additions . . . they remind us of the short story's playfulness, it's ability to move us with unexpected sharpness while it experiments with voices, styles and boundaries
Jhumpa Lahiri has pulled off something quite striking here: a literary anthology that sparkles with invention and variety, makes a remarkably convincing case for the vitality of the modern Italian short story and also beguiles, thanks to her sharp-eyed work as editor, compiler and part-translator.
Taken one by one, each story in this volume is a jewel. Taken all together, the book is a remarkable introduction to Italian literature and a great gift to the English-speaking reader. Remarkable stories from a wide range of writers describe the mundane and the fantastic, the everyday and the sublime.
An enticing collection . . . a remarkable sample of the literary form . . . the tales are by turns startling, moving, intriguing and provocative; they bring melancholy, humour and a dose of the uncanny.