'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this
novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES 'A rare kind of
literary celebrity' VOGUE 'A hypnotic disappearing act' OBSERVER
The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker
Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her
decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and
lonely Italian city The woman moves through the city, her city, on
her own. She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its
bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace
to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in
a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded square.
Sometimes her steps take her to her grieving mother, sealed off in
her own solitude. Sometimes they take her to the station, where the
trains can spirit her away for a short while. But in the arc of a
year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits.
One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's
vital heat, her perspective will change forever. A rare work of
fiction, Whereabouts - first written in Italian and then translated
by the author herself - brims with the impulse to cross barriers.
By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed
herself to a new level of artistic achievement. A dazzling
evocation of a city, its captures a woman standing on one of life's
thresholds, reflecting on what has been lost and facing, with equal
hope and rage, what may lie ahead. 'An unusual literary and
linguistic feat' NEW YORK TIMES
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