Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

#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.

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in the United Kingdom to Bengali parents and spent her childhood and adolescence in the United States. She is the author of four narrative books: El buen nombre, El intérprete del dolor, Tierra desacostumbrada, and La hondonada, the last three of which were published by Salamandra. In other words, this is his first non-fiction work. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Frank O#Connor Award. In 2012, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2015, he was awarded the National Medal of Humanities.

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ISBN 13	9780307278258
ISBN 10	0307278255
Title	Unaccustomed Earth
Author	Jhumpa Lahiri
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-04-07
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of Asian American Literary Award 2009, Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize of Europe and South Asia 2009, Winner of New York Times Editors' Choice 2008, Short-listed for The Story Prize 2008
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