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Unaccustomed Earth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307278258)
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x#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies These eight stories take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. "Glorious.... Showcases a considerable talent in full bloom." --San Francisco Chronicle
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father who carefully tends her garden-where she later unearths evidence of a love affair he is keeping to himself. In "A Choice of Accommodations," a couple's romantic getaway weekend takes a dark turn at a party that lasts deep into the night. In "Only Goodness," a woman eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in "Hema and Kaushik," a trio of linked stories-a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love and fate-we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one fateful winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with the author's signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is the work of a writer at the peak of her powers.
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN-10: 0307278255
ISBN-13: 9780307278258
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.30w x 0.78d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/10/2009 pg. 28
Commonweal 06/19/2009 pg. 30
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father who carefully tends her garden-where she later unearths evidence of a love affair he is keeping to himself. In "A Choice of Accommodations," a couple's romantic getaway weekend takes a dark turn at a party that lasts deep into the night. In "Only Goodness," a woman eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in "Hema and Kaushik," a trio of linked stories-a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love and fate-we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one fateful winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with the author's signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is the work of a writer at the peak of her powers.
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN-10: 0307278255
ISBN-13: 9780307278258
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.30w x 0.78d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/10/2009 pg. 28
Commonweal 06/19/2009 pg. 30
By Jhumpa Lahiri
xJhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud 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 In altre parole.
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