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Unaccustomed Earth | 
 enlarge | Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 1380057
Format: Import
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0676979343
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780676979343
ASIN: 0676979343
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
Knopf Canada is proud to welcome this bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author with eight dazzling stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father who carefully tends her garden–where she later unearths evidence of a love affair he is keeping to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a couple’s romantic getaway weekend takes a dark turn at a party that lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a woman 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 fateful 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 the author’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is the work of a writer at the peak of her powers.
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 Emotions will linger long after you've finished the book October 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read the first story in this collection with a lump in my throat. The way Lahiri describes her characters and their stories is so simple, yet so incredibly heart wrenching that I found myself aching along with the characters. Her writing is amazingly simple, no overwrought descriptions or tediousness, but I just found myself gliding into her characters' lives and feeling all the emotions: the loss of loved ones, sadness, isolation and hope. I think her stories are so universal that everyone can find something to relate to. Read this book--you will not be disappointed. The stories and emotions will linger long after you put it down.
A Perfect 10 September 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jhumper Lahiri is doing for America's Bengali community what Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Bernard Malamud did for the Jews of America-and Lahiri lives comfortably with these greats.
Five short stories of love in a foreign climate-Bengali's adapting to America-and three forming a novella of the unfulfilled love between Hema and Kaushik.
These are stories to savour,that are completely satisfying on every level.
This is writing of Nobel prize standard without a doubt.
Great storytelling September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought The Interpreter of Maladies was good, but this is even better. I most often prefer reading novels, but I have enjoyed Lahiri's stories so much. The length of the stories of the stories has a lot to do with it. Most are 50-60 pages. The last 3 stories are especially compelling. They follow 2 characters at various times in their lives: when they are children, in adolescence and later in their 30's.
Highly recomended.
Great Stories... September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know why but I found each story gripping...I was always disappointed when each story came to an end.
Brilliant September 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I absolutely loved every story, specially the last three, linked stories. The ending made me cry. Her words are so beautiful.
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