Unaccustomed Earth
by:
Jhumpa Lahiri (author)
This collection of adroit short stories by the author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake explores the distances and entanglements between generations and cultures. The tales in Unaccustomed Earth are varied, touching issues including alcoholism and responsibility to one's parents. The...
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This collection of adroit short stories by the author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake explores the distances and entanglements between generations and cultures. The tales in Unaccustomed Earth are varied, touching issues including alcoholism and responsibility to one's parents. The collection concludes with three linked stories about two childhood friends, each capturing, at it were, a snapshot of their interactions at different stages.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307268686 (0307268683)
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Asia,
Short Stories
In this collection of short stories, the author parts the veil, allowing the reader a glimpse into the lives of the families whose stories she tells. The first five stories each focus on a different person, while the final three are snapshots from different portions of one life as told by two people...
Her stories were all the same. Lahiri really shines in longer stories but in these shorter ones they're all unhappy Bengali families (with one exception that was about a white guy who lived with an unhappy Bengali woman). The only one that I can say I enjoyed was the last one but even the ending was...
After Interpreter of Maladies, this is the second Jhumpa Lahiri book that I have picked up. Yes, at the risk of raising eyebrows from one and many, I have to admit that I haven’t read The Namesake yet.The first story in the book is ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ and I was lost in this book right from the firs...
Didn't quite care for the last 3 but Jhumpa Lahiri's prose remains stolid in this collection (in a simultaneously reliably impressive yet also predictable fashion)
Unaccustomed Earth is Jhumpa Lahiri's yet another collection of most dazzling short-stories of all times making it evident the umpteenth time the kind of prodigious skills she portrays with her art of putting together in words the distressed hearts and confused minds of her characters that are strug...
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