The title story takes on a young mother nervously hosting her widowed father, who is visiting between trips he takes with a lover he has kept secret from his family. Unaccustomed Earth / Jhumpa Lahiri We have received the following praise for the above: """Lahiri's enormous gifts as a storyteller are on full display in this collection: the gorgeous, effortless prose the characters haunted by regret, isolation, loss, and tragedies big and small and most of all, a quiet, emerging sense of humanity." -Khaled Hosseini, author of "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and "The Kite Runner""Pulitzer Prize winning Lahiri returns with her highly anticipated second collection exploring the inevitable tension brought on by family life. Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock. This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers. "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. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. 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. 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.
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.
But he's harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he's keeping all to himself. 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. 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.
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