Unaccustomed Earth

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• Unaccustomed Earth

  This wonderful volume of short stories is bound together by the theme of the immigrant’s experience: the perennial challenges of adapting; steering a path between cultures; children adopting the mores of their new homeland and moving away from their ... (read full critics)

  bookgroup published on Thu, 9 Jun 2011

• The ghosts that haunt a family

  Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Bloomsbury £14.99, pp352 Fiction is nothing but a narrator's intelligent attention to the play of human feelings, but in the stories of Jhumpa Lahiri, that attention takes a distinctive, refined form. Her character ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  what a writer

  Lahiri writes about the world she knows - but even if you aren't from the Bengahli American enclave, it is a world you know too - just learning to deal with one's past and present, family history, etc. This collection of short stories is particularily interesting as they are linked thgrough some of ... (continue)

  Lahiri writes about the world she knows - but even if you aren't from the Bengahli American enclave, it is a world you know too - just learning to deal with one's past and present, family history, etc. This collection of short stories is particularily interesting as they are linked thgrough some of the characters. Beautiful use of language, attaching characters. Wish it wouldn't end..

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  Gail Paris said on Jan 25, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  SPLENDID

  The best novels I have ever read! Emotional, profound, moving. The author takes, guides you to feeling and emotions and you can't but follow. Silence and incommunicability are the leading topics, you can really touch the silences, understand them and have to accept them. The author leads you to peak ... (continue)

  The best novels I have ever read! Emotional, profound, moving. The author takes, guides you to feeling and emotions and you can't but follow. Silence and incommunicability are the leading topics, you can really touch the silences, understand them and have to accept them. The author leads you to peaks you would't even think of and then push you down into a dark hole in the end. It takes time to start the new novel, time to think over, to metabolize, to sympathize with the characters, with their feelings, their reasons, their stories.

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  Vioca said on Jun 8, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  The stories in the first part are wonderful and confirm Lahiri as one of the greatest short fiction writers of the English-speaking world. Of the three novellas in the second part, dealing with the same protagonists at different ages, the first two are spoiled by a clumsy (and sometimes unjustified) ... (continue)

  The stories in the first part are wonderful and confirm Lahiri as one of the greatest short fiction writers of the English-speaking world. Of the three novellas in the second part, dealing with the same protagonists at different ages, the first two are spoiled by a clumsy (and sometimes unjustified) employ of second person narration, while the third exceeds in name dropping and geographical clichés to create an exotic background for American readers out of the Italian setting.

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  rayuela said on Aug 27, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• ISBN-10: 0307278255
• ISBN-13: 9780307278258
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