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| Unaccustomed Earth | 
 enlarge | Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  120 reviews
Sales Rank: 360
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:
 A Perfect 10 September 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jhumper Lahiri is doing for America's Bengali community what Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Bernard Malamud did for the Jews of America-and Lahiri lives comfortably with these greats.
Five short stories of love in a foreign climate-Bengali's adapting to America-and three forming a novella of the unfulfilled love between Hema and Kaushik.
These are stories to savour,that are completely satisfying on every level.
This is writing of Nobel prize standard without a doubt.
Great storytelling September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought The Interpreter of Maladies was good, but this is even better. I most often prefer reading novels, but I have enjoyed Lahiri's stories so much. The length of the stories of the stories has a lot to do with it. Most are 50-60 pages. The last 3 stories are especially compelling. They follow 2 characters at various times in their lives: when they are children, in adolescence and later in their 30's.
Highly recomended.
Great Stories... September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know why but I found each story gripping...I was always disappointed when each story came to an end.
Brilliant September 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I absolutely loved every story, specially the last three, linked stories. The ending made me cry. Her words are so beautiful.
 Groundhog Day September 15, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you've read Ms. Lahiri's other works, you will have no need to read this collection. After reading the first story in this collection, I thought I was experiencing de ja vu. As I read further into the book, I realized that what I was experiencing was more similar to the movie Groundhog Day, in that the same characters, plots and settings were being reused and recycled. This book is tired.
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