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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
from Knopf
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Another well-written Lahiri book 
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... more info
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Human nature and Indian culture in a beautiful collection of stories 
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,... more info
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Another great book by Lahiri
Yes, we've been here before, as one reviewer says. But "predictable", NO. Lahiri writes about Bengalis who have left their country to raise their families in the US. The themes are recurring, some of the characters are similar and have similar experiences. You get the feeling that many of them probably know each other. But the characters are full-bodied and their stories have all of the immediacy and unexpected turns of real life. (The second generation gets a few surprises from their parents in this... more info
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Competent But Could Have Been Great 
When "The Interpreter of Maladies" was published in 2000 the only word one could use to describe Jhumpa Lahiri is phenom. Almost fifty years ago the young Southern writer Carson McCullers stunned the literary establishment with her debut novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," and here was another young unknown writer expressing the extraordinarily emotional moments of the everyday and ordinary in pristine and polished, mature and haunting prose.
"Unaccustomed Earth" is Jhumpa Lahiri's second collection... more info
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