Reviews

Dove mi trovo by Jhumpa Lahiri

hazyhall's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

bridget16rose's review against another edition

reflective relaxing sad

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

erikav86's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

tessalehman's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

vin_81's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

dinah56's review against another edition

4.0

I found Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest book beautiful and so easy to find myself in the vignettes. A book that takes life’s ordinariness, and opens up the profoundness of human moments. Told by an unnamed narrator, we experience a year in her life in her unnamed city. The writing revealed the similarities between solitude and loneliness, independence and estrangement, and the loss and gain of change.

lqueijo's review against another edition

2.0

Fraquito... é o máximo que se pode dizer deste livro.
A grande virtude que poderá ter suscitado todo o “hype” é o facto de ter sido, originalmente, escrito em Italiano (que não é a língua materna da escritora e a qual aprendeu não há muito tempo), e por ela traduzido para Inglês. Mesmo assim, parece mais um exercício de “show off” do que qualquer outra coisa.
De resto... de “novela” (termo que não me agrada muito, possivelmente devido às televisões) não tem nada, sendo uma sequência de pequenos episódios do quotidiano narrados pela protagonista de quem não se sabe o nome. Até aqui, poderia o resultado ser bastante bom (veja-se o caso de Rachel Cusk, pelo menos em “Contraluz”). No entanto, o desenvolvimento dos personagens é muito fraco e o fio condutor dos diversos episódios sustentados no abandono/laxismo/niilismo da protagonista, muito ténue, fazendo com que o resultado final seja, no mínimo, enfadonho. Valha, ao menos, que é pequeno....
Com tanta “coisa” boa para ler... passem.

sadiq_khan's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

smo's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

zmcma13's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75