Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us from America to Europe, India and Thailand as they follow new lives forged in the wake of loss.
'Lahiri's enormous gifts as a storyteller are on full display.. gorgeous' Khaled Hosseini 'Probably the most influential writer of fiction in America' Financial Times 'Contains some of the best, most beautiful fiction written this decade - the kind that will be read 50 years from now' New Statesman 'It's difficult to think of a contemporary writer who gives her characters so much dignity ... Fiction of matchless restraint, yet also of rich, complex lives and credible characters' The Times
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London of Bengali parents, and grew up in Rhode Island, USA. Her stories have appeared in many American journals and her first collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize 2000 for Fiction, the New Yorker Prize for Best First Book, the PEN/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Award. Her novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003 and is now a major motion picture from the director of Monsoon Wedding. Jhumpa Lahiri lives in New York with her husband and two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747596592 |
| ISBN 10 | 074759659X |
| Title | Unaccustomed Earth |
| Author | Jhumpa Lahiri |
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| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2009-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2009, Winner of Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2008 |
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