Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth

Pajiba (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Tepid Orchestration Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri / Donna Sherman...

Mailbox Monday - August 18, 2008

caribousmom (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008

I love finding books in my mailbox (or arriving in the back of a UPS truck). Here’s what showed up last week: Interpreter of Maladies AND Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri I’ve been hearing about Lahiri’s work for a while now and these two collections come highly recommended. I’m lucky that I have bookish friends who [...]

Thing I Love, An occasional series

CityMama (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008

Chloé perfume. It's everything I love in a fragrance. Jhumpa Lahiri. I wish I could read something by her every day. Her latest book of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth? Inspiring....

Essays on Indian fiction

The Middle Stage (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008

Over the last three years I've written about Indian fiction new, old, and ancient on this site, from Dandin to Jhumpa Lahiri, and over time these pieces have built up into quite a substantial collection which I'm putting together in one place here, and will keep updating with new essays and reviews. You will find that although there are many general remarks about the nature and the craft of fiction...

For these novelists, the first time's a charm

JSOnline (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

First novels can be like birthday surprises. Sometimes there is a freshness to them, which makes you heady with discovery. And they can signal the arrival of a gifted writer. Think Jhumpa Lahiri, who's remained on bestseller lists since her fir...

the goddess jhumpa

Anglofille (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

Literary blogs are buzzing this week with the news that Jhumpa Lahiri has won the Frank O’Connor short story prize — a major literary award worth £27,000. The fact that she won isn’t surprising, but what’s making news is that the judges announced they will not produce a shortlist of books that will compete [...]

Lahiri Leapfrogs List

Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

Jhumpa Lahiri has won this year's Frank o'Connor Short story prize with Unaccustomed Earth . As Lydsay Irvine in the Guardian points out , the book has been something of a publishing sensation, immediately hitting number one spot in the New York Times 's fiction charts. Her first collection of short fiction Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer in 2000. (Is any publisher going to spin the tired...

On the importance of shortlists

Bookninja (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

Nicholas Lezard considers the consequences of awarding the prize without announcing the shortlist, which is apparently what the Frank O’Connor short story prize judges did this weekend past—-awarding the prize directly to Jhumpa Lahiri because they were all so smitten with the book they doubted the use and honesty of a shortlist. The first is that [...]

• Give us back our shortlists - The Guardian Books Blog

Change and loss

3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008

From The Guardian: Until fairly recently, Jhumpa Lahiri didn't have much name recognition in this country. But in the US, where she grew up and lives, and in India, where her parents were born, she's had star status since the...

A life in books: Jhumpa Lahiri

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008

Coming from India to the US, Jhumpa Lahiri tells Christopher Tayler about the intense pressure she feels 'to be loyal to the old world and fluent in the new'

Book Review: Unaccustomed Earth :: That's Beijing blog

Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri When one moves to a new land, what are the possibilities for personal change? What are the limitations? Jhumpa Lahiri presents both these questions in her quiet and elegant new collection of short stories, entitled Unaccustomed Earth. As in her two previous books, Lahiri writes about the Bengali-American experience; here, however, the author moves outward. Her stories still revolve...

Jhumpa Lahiri: 'Writing makes me so vulnerable'

The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008

There are not, I suspect, many authors who prefer never to read reviews and profiles of themselves. "It's just too much, like looking into a mirror all the time," says Jhumpa Lahiri. This is a pity, as she's missing considerable acclaim.

Book review: Unaccustomed Earth

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri Bloomsbury, 352pp, £14.99

Review: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

Hirsh Sawhney hears echoes of Salinger in Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of migrant tales, Unaccustomed Earth

Editorial: In praise of ... Jhumpa Lahiri

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

Editorial: The experience of immigrants has not been well told in fiction