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Title: UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Hardback

List price: £16.99


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ISBN 10: 0747590001
ISBN 13: 9780747590002
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 2 June, 2008
Pages: 352
Description: An outstanding new collection of stories that explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake
Synopsis: Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth follows new lives forged in the wake of loss. These are stories in which deeply sympathetic characters reach pivotal moments in their frayed relationships and are forced to navigate their way in unfamiliar landscapes. In the title story the death of a mother leaves a space neither daughter nor husband knows how to fill. In 'Only Goodness' a younger brother's spiralling alcoholism threatens to destroy his loyal sister's family. And in a trio of linked stories we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one memorable winter, share a house in suburban Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until they are brought together years later in a chance meeting in Rome. With moving compassion Lahiri traces a series of transformations: weariness into hope, secrets into sacrifices, and grief into unforeseen love. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any she has yet written - explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience, taking us from America to Europe, India and Thailand.Infused with eloquent warmth and lyrical simplicity, Unaccustomed Earth confirms Jhumpa Lahiri's status as a storyteller of unrivalled empathy.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Prizes: Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2009 Winner of Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2008
Returns: Returnable
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