Das Wiedersehen

From the longing for a better world and the feeling of being an outsider in the most beautiful of all cities: Rome. The new book by the multiple award-winning Pulitzer Prize winner and master of the short story.

A man recalls a summer party that brought another version of himself to life. A couple haunted by a tragic loss returns to Rome in search of solace. An outsider family is evicted from the apartment block where they had hoped to settle. A staircase in a Roman neighborhood connects the daily lives of the countless residents of the city.

This book is an impressive fresco of Rome, the most seductive city of all: contradictory, in constant change, and a home for those who know they can never fully belong, yet choose to do so anyway.

"The Reunion" is a masterful work by one of the great writers of our time. Jhumpa Lahiri has written it in her beloved chosen language, Italian, and tells the story of home and belonging like no other. Beautiful, elegant prose, characters haunted by suffering, isolation, loss, great and small tragedies, and above all, a profound and all-encompassing humanity.