Unaccustomed earth / Jhumpa Lahiri
Publication details: New York : A.A. Knopf , c2008.Edition: 1st North American edDescription: 333 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780307265739
- FIC LAH
- PS3562.A316 U53 2008
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC LAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 022509 |
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FIC LAH Whereabouts : a novel | FIC LAH The namesake | FIC LAH The lowland : a novel | FIC LAH Unaccustomed earth | FIC LAK The face in the mirror | FIC LAL The Moor's account : a novel | FIC LAL The other Americans |
Unaccustomed earth -- Hell-heaven -- Choice of accommodations -- Only goodness -- Nobody's business -- Once in a lifetime -- Year's end -- Going ashore.
The gulf that separates expatriate Bengali parents from their American-raised children-and that separates the children from India-remains Lahiri's subject for this follow-up to Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake. In this set of eight stories, the results are again stunning. In the title story, Brooklyn-to-Seattle transplant Ruma frets about a presumed obligation to bring her widower father into her home, a stressful decision taken out of her hands by his unexpected independence. The alcoholism of Rahul is described by his elder sister, Sudha; her disappointment and bewilderment pack a particularly powerful punch. And in the loosely linked trio of stories closing the collection, the lives of Hema and Kaushik intersect over the years, first in 1974 when she is six and he is nine; then a few years later when, at 13, she swoons at the now-handsome 16-year-old teen's reappearance; and again in Italy, when she is a 37-year-old academic about to enter an arranged marriage, and he is a 40-year-old photojournalist. An inchoate grief for mothers lost at different stages of life enters many tales and, as the book progresses, takes on enormous resonance.
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