{"id":1160,"date":"2023-04-15T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T15:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tirinha.com\/contos-romanos-a-capital-italiana-como-refugio-e-castigo\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T15:25:57","slug":"roman-tales-the-italian-capital-as-refuge-and-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tirinha.com\/en\/1160\/contos-romanos-a-capital-italiana-como-refugio-e-castigo\/","title":{"rendered":"'Roman tales', the Italian capital as refuge and punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Acclaimed writer Jhumpa Lahiri's latest book is a collection of short stories with a common thread: sincerity about Roman life.<\/h2>\n

roman tales <\/em>reflects on the lives of teenagers, women, men and families whose destiny seems to be linked to their roots; to the Rome they inhabit and, in many cases, to the land they once inhabited. The translation by Carlos Gumpert, from Lumen, can now be found in Spanish bookstores. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The writer<\/h3>\n

As unusual as it may be, the good reader of the stories that make up roman tales<\/em> deserves an introduction to its author. Celebrated in literary circles and praised by critics, Jhumpa Lahiri is well known among book consumers; although, their stories belong to a less popular life experience<\/strong>. Of Bengali parents and born in the United Kingdom, the writer spent her childhood and youth in the United States, where she studied at Boston University and published her first books in English. What's more, after beating the Pulitzer Prize with The interpreter of pain<\/em> (1999) and his book being chosen unaccustomed land<\/em> (2008) as Best Book of the Year 2008 by The New York Times <\/em><\/strong>-among other no less important recognitions-; he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012.<\/p>\n

However, Lahiri, whose maturity was already the result of several migrations and mixing of cultures, chose to condemn success<\/strong> and moving with his family to Italy; a decision closely linked to the need to build one\u2019s own identity<\/strong>. The radicality of his change was such that he abandoned English to learn Italian, and even his last writings were written in the Romance language. With roman tales<\/em> Jhumpa Lahiri's personal journey converges into a nuanced analysis of the city of Rome<\/strong>on those who flee from it and on those who take refuge in it.<\/p>\n

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