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Knopf Canada is proud to welcome this bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author with 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 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 fateful 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 the author’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is the work of a writer at the peak of her powers.
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 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 fateful 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 the author’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is the work of a writer at the peak of her powers.
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'Splendid . . . Reading her stories is like watching time-lapse nature videos of different plants, each with its own inherent growth cycle, breaking through the soil, spreading into bloom or collapsing back to earth.' -- The New York Times Book Review (April 2008)
"Lahiri is probably the most influential writer of fiction in America... 'Going Ashore' is perhaps the saddest story Lahiri has ever written - and yet you finish it feeling uplifted by the artistry and mastery of her technique." -- Jason Cowley, Financial Times, June 7 2008.
'Lahiri sees the entire arc of life, as characters plant themselves in an idea of home then fly off again' -- Lorrie Moore
'Lahiri's finely drawn prose makes [Unaccustomed Earth] feel less like reading and more like peering into the most raw, intimate moments of people's lives.' -- Marie Claire (April 2008)
'Peripatetic, sweeping stories - Lahiri's best yet'
-- Vogue (April 2008)
'Reading her stories is hypnotizing-like falling into a dream where colors are brighter, smells sharper and time moves more slowly than in real life.' -- People (April 2008)
'Unaccustomed Earth defied publishing industry wisdom that says short stories don't make the bestseller lists, and no wonder'
-- Daily Telegraph - Books of 2008
Almost every story is exquisitely crafted, beautifully told. -- Telegraph Review, May 31st 2008
Confidently wonderful collection. -- Sunday Times Culture Magazine, June 1 2008
It is difficult to think of a contemporary writer who gives her characters so much dignity. Like the greatest short story writers, Lahiri revels inner lives by holding back so much.
-- The Times, Saturday May 24th 2008
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"Lahiri is probably the most influential writer of fiction in America... 'Going Ashore' is perhaps the saddest story Lahiri has ever written - and yet you finish it feeling uplifted by the artistry and mastery of her technique." -- Jason Cowley, Financial Times, June 7 2008.
'Lahiri sees the entire arc of life, as characters plant themselves in an idea of home then fly off again' -- Lorrie Moore
'Lahiri's finely drawn prose makes [Unaccustomed Earth] feel less like reading and more like peering into the most raw, intimate moments of people's lives.' -- Marie Claire (April 2008)
'Peripatetic, sweeping stories - Lahiri's best yet'
-- Vogue (April 2008)
'Reading her stories is hypnotizing-like falling into a dream where colors are brighter, smells sharper and time moves more slowly than in real life.' -- People (April 2008)
'Unaccustomed Earth defied publishing industry wisdom that says short stories don't make the bestseller lists, and no wonder'
-- Daily Telegraph - Books of 2008
Almost every story is exquisitely crafted, beautifully told. -- Telegraph Review, May 31st 2008
Confidently wonderful collection. -- Sunday Times Culture Magazine, June 1 2008
It is difficult to think of a contemporary writer who gives her characters so much dignity. Like the greatest short story writers, Lahiri revels inner lives by holding back so much.
-- The Times, Saturday May 24th 2008
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and author of two previous books. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award and The New Yorker Debut of the Year. Her novel The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was selected as one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherRandom House of Canada Ltd
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0676979343
- ISBN 13 9780676979343
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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