Book description
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.
â  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' 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.
