{"product_id":"whereabouts","title":"Whereabouts","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe woman moves through the city, her city, on her own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA rare work of fiction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhereabouts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jhumpa Lahiri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45907489489065,"sku":"9781526629975","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781526629975.jpg?v=1749273324","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/whereabouts","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}