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Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 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.
www.jhumpalahiri.net
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The Namesake
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri, Read by Sarita Choudhury
Random House Audio | Unabridged Compact Disc | August 2006
$34.95/46.95(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4136-0 (0-7393-4136-7)
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
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The Namesake
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri, Read by Sarita Choudhury
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$20.00/25.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-0696-3 (0-7393-0696-0)
The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking... Read more
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Unaccustomed Earth
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vintage | Trade Paperback | April 2009
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-0-307-27825-8 (0-307-27825-5)
These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with... Read more
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Unaccustomed Earth
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri
Knopf | Hardcover | April 2008
$25.00/(Canada) | 978-0-307-26573-9 (0-307-26573-0)
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... Read more
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Unaccustomed Earth
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vintage | eBook |
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-0-307-26868-6 (0-307-26868-3)
These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with... Read more
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Unaccustomed Earth
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri, Read by Sarita Choudhury and Ajay Naidu
Random House Audio | Unabridged Compact Disc | April 2008
$39.95/(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4179-7 (0-7393-4179-0)
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of... Read more
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Unaccustomed Earth
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri, Read by Sarita Choudhury and Ajay Naidu
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$20.00/23.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4180-3 (0-7393-4180-4)
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of... Read more
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