Unaccustomed Earth

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

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  • : $24.00 AUD
  • : 9780747596592
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : March 2009
  • : 23.99
  • : October 2013
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Barcode 9780747596592
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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.

Awards

Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2009.

Author description

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.