{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-italian-short-stories-isbn-9780241299852","title":"The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA landmark collection of stories--nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader--and writer--took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight and\u003cbr\u003eunexpected freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together forty writers who have shaped her love of the Italian language and profound appreciation for its literature. More than half of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, and the wide-ranging selection includes well-known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating rediscoveries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross-section of Italian society. Together they reflect more than a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short-story tradition, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions, and the dramatic political events of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“The perfect companion whenever I get around to that trip to Rome.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeva Lange, \u003ci\u003eThe Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“An excellent introduction to Italy—a sentimental Baedeker useful for traveling into the mind of a fascinating if elusive nation . . . To have re-discovered, edited, and re-proposed these authors is laudable. But Lahiri went further: she understood them. And she shares a deep appreciation for their common denominator: Italy. . . . This is the real Italy. And \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates this better than any travel guide does.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeppe Severgnini, \u003ci\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A remarkable introduction to Italian literature and a great gift to the English-speaking reader . . . Each story in this volume is a jewel.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A welcome addition to the shelf of Penguin anthologies of world literature . . . [Lahiri] features women, authors less-known or neglected, and those ‘who practiced the short form with particular vehemence and virtuosity.’ . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e may reward the patient listener to the voices of these tellers.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Jhumpa Lahiri crowns her public turn as an Italophile and translator with [\u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e]. . . .  It could hardly come at a better time, when Elena Ferrante’s novels and the American revival of Natalia Ginzburg are igniting new interest in the literary traditions of the \u003ci\u003eBelpaese\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Rich . . . Eclectic . . . A feast . . . Her choice of 40 authors embraces familiar greats and sows them with fascinating additions. . . . They remind us of the short story’s playfulness, its ability to move us with unexpected sharpness while it experiments with voices, styles and boundaries.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“An enticing collection . . . The tales are by turns startling, moving, intriguing and provocative; they bring melancholy, humor and a dose of the uncanny.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Refreshing and surprisingly contemporary . . . A map of Ferrante’s hinterland . . . Lahiri has pulled off something quite striking here: a literary anthology that sparkles with invention and variety, makes a remarkably convincing case for the vitality of the modern Italian short story and also beguiles, thanks to her sharp-eyed work as editor, compiler and part-translator. . . . There’s a gamut of register—comedy, fantasy, satire, psychological and social realism and more. . . . There are plenty of big hitters—Lampedusa, Svevo, Sciascia, Gadda, Calvino—though they are often represented with nicely unpredictable stories. . . . And there are captivating juxtapositions. . . . Throughout, Lahiri displays deft literary and linguistic touches. She is clearly enjoying this. She provides elegant one-page bios for all forty writers. . . . She writes with compelling force of the dense pluralism of voice in Italian language and literature. Crucially, she also makes a point of championing the extraordinary depth and quality of women’s voices.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This volume, which honors so many writer-translators, is as much a tribute to the Italian short story as it is a validation of the need—aesthetic, political, ethical—for translation itself. . . . Only works in translation can broaden the literary horizon, open doors, break down the wall.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri, from the Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four works of fiction: \u003ci\u003eInterpreter of Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Namesake\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnaccustomed Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lowland\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the National Book Award. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN\/Hemingway Award; the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia for \u003ci\u003eIn Other Words\u003c\/i\u003e, her memoir about learning Italian. She was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation from the Italian of Domenico Starnone's novel \u003ci\u003eTrick.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cu\u003eContents\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Jhumpa Lahiri \u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Citation of Titles and Their Translations \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • “\u003c\/i\u003eNames      and Tears” by Elio Vittorini \u003cbr\u003e   • “Picturesque      Lives” by Giovanni Verga \u003cbr\u003e   • “The Siren” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa \u003cbr\u003e   • “Against      Time” by Antonio Tabucchi \u003cbr\u003e   • “Generous      Wine” by Italo Svevo \u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Long Voyage” by Leonardo Sciasci \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/i\u003e• “Bago” by Alberto Savinio \u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Hen” by Umberto Saba\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Lady” by Lalla Romano\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Tower” by Fabrizia Ramondino\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Trap” by Luigi Pirandello\u003cbr\u003e   • “Wedding      Trip” by Cesare Pavese\u003cbr\u003e   • “Melancholy” by Goffredo Parise\u003cbr\u003e   • “Silence” by Aldo Palazzeschi\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e  • “A      Pair of Eye\/glasses” by Anna Maria Ortese\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Other Side of the Moon” by Alberto Moravia\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Ambitious Ones” by Elsa Morante\u003cbr\u003e   • “Sixteen,      Twenty-one, Twenty-eight and Thirty-seven” from \u003ci\u003eCenturia\u003c\/i\u003e by Giorgio Manganelli\u003cbr\u003e   • “Quaestio de      Centauris” by Primo Levi\u003cbr\u003e   • “Gogol’s      Wife” by Tommaso Landolfi\u003cbr\u003e   • “My      Husband” by Natalia Ginzburg\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Mother” by Carlo Emilio Gadda\u003cbr\u003e   • “A      Martian in Rome” by Ennio Flaiano\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Smell of Death” by Beppe Fenoglio\u003cbr\u003e   • “Life      as a Couple” by Luce D’Eramo\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Milliner” by Antonio Delfini\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Hind” by Grazia Deledda\u003cbr\u003e   • “Invitation      to Dinner” by Alba de Céspedes\u003cbr\u003e   • “Elegy      for Signora Nodier” by Silvio D’Arzo\u003cbr\u003e   • “Malpasso” by Fausta Cialente\u003cbr\u003e   • “At      the Station” by Carlo Cassola\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Golden Nut” by Cristina Campo\u003cbr\u003e   • “Dialogue      with a Tortoise” by Italo Calvino\u003cbr\u003e   • “And      Yet They Are Knocking at Your Door” by Dino Buzzati\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Miraculous Beach, or, Prize for Modesty” by Massimo Bontempelli\u003cbr\u003e   • “A      Geographical Error” by Romano Bilenchi\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Streetwalker” by Luciano Bianciardi\u003cbr\u003e   • “Miss” by Anna Banti\u003cbr\u003e   • “The      Baboon” by Giovanni Arpino\u003cbr\u003e   • “Barefoot” by Corrado Alvaro\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Translators","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303041224933,"sku":"NP9780241299852","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241299852.jpg?v=1767740909","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-penguin-book-of-italian-short-stories-isbn-9780241299852","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}