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Title: Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, The
Author: LAHIRI JHUMPA (ED)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 19/05/2020
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy’s vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century.
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, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events.
This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.
ISBN: 9780241299852
Pages: 304
Edition: 01