| Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) | 
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Category: Book
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Label: Vintage
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0307278255
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307278258
ASIN: 0307278255
Publication Date: April 7, 2009
Release Date: April 7, 2009
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Product Description
These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with the signature gifts that have established Jhumpa Lahiri as one of our most essential writers, Unaccustomed Earth exquisitely renders the most intricate workings of the heart and mind.
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 Unaccustomed Earth June 26, 2009
I could not put this book down - a great read! I look forward to reading more of Lahiri's books.
SHE HAS NO PEER June 18, 2009
I'll read anyhing she writes -- and more than once. If she brought out a line of greeting cards -- I'd buy them all and keep them for myself.
Unaccustomed to such good reading June 16, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every story in Unaccustomed Earth was a pleasure to read. Because of Lahiri's impecible use of language, it was a seamless transition from the place I was to being an intimate, on scene observer of the story. I was there. I loved it.
 Good dramatization June 15, 2009
The recorded book proved a good dramatization of the novel. A woman and a man shared the reading. Choudhury assumed the female narrators and Naidu the men's. Their light accents authenticated the Indian-American heritage of the storytellers. Other language from India, Italy, and elsewhere they rendered well. A few paragraphs made me stop the recording and reread what preceded. Either my mind had wandered or the reader rushed over the words. I listened with a copy of Unaccustomed Earth before me.
Brilliant, psychological and haunting!! June 14, 2009
Jhumpa Lahiri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize with her book The Interpreter of Maladies, continues to have one of modern fiction's most powerful voices.
The eight stories in her present book do not disappoint at all. They are wonderfully structured and are filled with acute psychological observations, eloquent writing and detailed descriptions. The main themes are about family secrets and relations. In one of them, there is the story of a widower who has a mistress and who prefers to keep it a secret from his daughter, in another, a married woman who falls platonically in love with a friend, in another, a sister who introduces her brother to alcoholism, in another, the story of a teen who cannot accept the father's new wife, etc.
Lahiri's stories of exile, identity, disappointment, bitterness, relations and maturation are brilliant and extremely realistic. Her language is aesthetically marvelous.
Joyce Akesson, author of Love's Thrilling Dimensions
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