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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307265739
ISBN: 0307265730
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: April 01, 2008
Sales Rank: 125
Studio: Knopf
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From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister 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 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 Jhumpa Lahiri’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers.
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Rating:  - A writer's workbook
Jhumpa Lahiri is a writer's writer.These stories are very romantic about missed loves.She uses stream of consciousness, changes of point of view, description, storytelling, and other writing techniques very well.I am amazed at her style.
She writes what she knows. She is a Bengali immigrant.Her characters and stories reflect that heritage.Her stories contain culture but are not limited to the culture.She is describing the human condition that is universal to all: A father who is ... Read More
Rating: - Bengali beauties
Loved it! So real:some stories are so sad. Great writing, as always.
Evelyn
Rating: - Jhumpa's emotional masterpiece
Jhumpa Lahiri writes about the people she knows best. Although all the stories deal with Bengali families, the incidents could be common to any Indian family living in the USA, and any non-resident Indian (NRI) can relate to them. She preys on the reader's emotions throughout the book, with a rather gut-wrenching finale to most of the stories.
Rating:  - Book of short stories - Cover to cover without a break?
It was definitely entertaining (I might have used "gripping" if it were a novel) enough to from cover to cover without a break. Even though it was about immigrant families from West Bengal (which I have never visited) living mostly on the East Coast of America (in cities and towns I have never heard of), she created a sense of association, call it connection, with the characters.
The little girl torn between two different cultures at home and at school, the teenager struggling in college ... Read More
Rating: - It was so good, it made me cry
I LOVED this book.I especially enjoyed the Hema & Kaushik triology.Lahiri's writing just seems to flow with ease, and it's a pleasure to read.I just love the way her stories unfold very carefully.I actually liked this collection of short stories even more than Interpreter of Maladies.It's the best book I've read in years.
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