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Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri

  • 352 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2008
  • 18 editions
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1 About this book

Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It is her second collection of stories, following Interpreter of Maladies (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).

As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of second and third generation Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. The book was Lahiri's first to top The New York Times Best Seller list, where it debuted at #1.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Asian Americans
  • Immigrants
  • Short stories
  • Fate and fatalism
  • East Indians

2 About Jhumpa Lahiri

Born 1967

Jhumpa Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri (Bengali pronunciation:; born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian. Her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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