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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780307265739 ISBN: 0307265730 Label: Knopf Manufacturer: Knopf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: April 01, 2008 Publisher: Knopf Release Date: April 01, 2008 Studio: Knopf Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Wonderful charactersBy the second paragraph you are interested in the characters and what will happen. A talented writer. An enjoyable read. She has become one of my favorite authors and I anxiously await her next book. Rating: - BeautifulUnaccustomed Earth is a beautiful follow up to Interpreter of Maladies, which I had read and loved. Here, Jhumpa Lahiri returns to similar subject matter, the everyday lives of Bengali immigrants. Her characters remain, as ever, complex, well wrought creations that you feel you know intimately. I loved every story in this collection especially the long one at the end, which is more like a short novel. Lahiri's beautiful writing, her great story-telling ability, and deep sense of human sympathy make ... Read More Rating: - A comforting familiarityI, like other readers, felt that many of the characters and stories seemed very similar to Ms. Lahiri's other works. While this may be the case, I found it comforting. Though the characters are almost always Begali, they could easily be members of other groups. I think Ms. Lahiri touches on themes common to most people: loneliness, isolation, longing, etc. Ms. Lahiri is writing what she knows and she does it well. I think at this point, I would expect these types of stories from Ms. ... Read More Rating: - Simply put--Amazing.These stories where beautiful. Lahiri seemed to push the enveloped a little more with this book, and the result is a beautiful work of prose. I couldn't put this one down. It was fantastic. Again, her stories deal with love, friendship, marriage and tragedy, making her characters real to her readers. If you read, "Interpreter of Maladies" and liked it, you will love this! Rating:  - Unaccustomed EarthUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri: Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, and author of The Namesake, returns after five years with Unaccustomed Earth, a collection of eight stories that are longer than short stories but not quite novella length. It's split into two parts. The first consists of five individual stories, while the second part consists of the last three tales, each involving the same two characters, Hema and Kaushik. The first story, "Unaccustomed ... Read More |
