Unaccustomed Earth
Stories
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, eight dazzling stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father who carefully tends her garden–where she later unearths evidence of a love affair he is keeping to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a couple’s romantic getaway weekend takes a dark turn at a party that lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a woman eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by…
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April 14, 2009
JHUMPA LAHIRI, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies and is also the author of The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland. Since 2015, Lahiri has been writing fiction, essays, and poetry in Italian: In Altre Parole (In Other Words), Il Vestito dei libri (The Clothing of Books), Dove mi trovo (self-translated as Whereabouts), Il quaderno di Nerina, and Racconti romani. She received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2014, and in 2019 was named Commendatore of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella. Her most recent book in English, Translating…
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri
Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Edited by Jhumpa Lahiri
In Other Words
Jhumpa Lahiri; translated by Ann Goldstein
The Clothing of Books
Jhumpa Lahiri
Hell-Heaven
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Malgudi Days
R. K. Narayan