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 enlarge | Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 366
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0307265730
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307265739
ASIN: 0307265730
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wonderful Collection of Short Stories September 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This review is a result of the audio book version which is highly recommended. The stories in this collection are excellent and each one is so poignant.
All of the stories are about Bengali people (individuals and families) who have immigrated to the United States. Each story deals with real life issues involving parents, siblings and lovers, and such topics as death, loss and longing across two cultures.
Ms. Lahari continues to create strong characters who stay with readers after the story has ended. I have read all of her books and this one does not disappoint.
 Jhumpa Lahiri's best work- till now September 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is written in Indian 3D version. You are there in every scene and you can guess where they are going, so plain and captured so well. The style is unique and when you get deeper the characters come alive. The stories are precious and there is nothing short about them
Hema and Kaushik could end up on the wide screen and you know movie makers will eat it up like the Titanic- Begin with a Tsunami and the flashback.
I can hardly wait for the next work and of course the movie
Ravikrishnan
Fantastic! September 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Jhumpa is a wonderful writer, I absolutely loved both Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccostomed Earth. Can't wait for the next book. Thanks!
Another well-written Lahiri book September 4, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
For those who have already read Ms. Lahiri's stories before and would like to have more of the same (trials and tribulations of Indian immigrants in a new country)this is a perfect sequel. Apart from that, it is a lovely book to read too that I enjoyed every bit. However, as Ms Lahiri shows great talent as a writer the next time she comes out with her new work I am really hoping that she branches out a bit and tries her hand at something not necessarily pulled from that same source. I am even interested in the trials of tribulations of Indians who go back to India after 30 yrs in the US and trying to adapt back to what they thought they left behind and found that they are now immigrants in their home country.
Human nature and Indian culture in a beautiful collection of stories September 3, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Jhumpa Lahiri has done it again. What a beautiful collection of stories. Some previous reviewers have been critical of her material, but I continue to find her characters interesting both in their very human situations and in their cultural diversity. The fist thing you are taught in a writing class is to "write about what you know." Lahiri does this with amazing style and insight. While her characters may be, for the most part, Bengali, the situations they are in are universal. As in her previous works, you can get a sense of Lahiri's own past, and that is wonderful.
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