She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize the PEN/Hemingway Award the PEN/Malamud Award the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award the Premio Gregor von Rezzori the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole.Ĭustomers who bought this item also bought. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.Ĭontributor Bio(s): Lahiri, Jhumpa: - Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher: HarperCollins Genres: Debut, Fiction, Pulitzer Prize winner Released: 01 January, 1999 ISBN. This stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. International Bestseller - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - PEN/Hemingway Award Winner Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) She is one of the finest short story writers I’ve read.’ Amy Tan‘Jhumpa Lahiri’s strong, subtle short story collection is a debut to relish.WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homeland…Jhumpa Lahiri’s prose is beautifully measured, subtle and sober, and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid, but this work is rich in observational detail, evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here), and full of emotional pull and reverberation.Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.‘Jhumpa Lahiri is the kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person you see and say “Read this!” She’s a dazzling storyteller with a distinctive voice, an eye for nuance, an ear for irony.

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