{"product_id":"9781526629975","title":"Whereabouts","description":"\u003cp\u003e'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES\n\u003cbr\u003e'A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE\n\u003cbr\u003e'A hypnotic disappearing act' OBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe woman moves through the city, her city, on her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An unusual literary and linguistic feat' NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52904588378421,"sku":"EB_LI0700_N04-06_AD","price":54.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9781526629975-1.jpg?v=1789405971","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ar\/products\/9781526629975","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}