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Knopf
April 2008
On Sale: April 8, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0307265730
EAN: 9780307265739
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Non-Fiction
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–
winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction:
eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any
she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle
to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters
and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons,
friends and lovers. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new
city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the
earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a
special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his
daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A
Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an
old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with
his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts
deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister 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 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 Jhumpa Lahiri’s signature
gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle
renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and
mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the
peak of her powers.
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