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May 11, 2015 | ISBN 9781101912096 Buy
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May 11, 2015 | ISBN 9781101912096
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionPranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America. “Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth. An eBook short.
JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor… More about Jhumpa Lahiri
Praise for Jhumpa Lahiri and Unaccustomed Earth“Stunning. . . . Gorgeous. . . . Never before has Lahiri mined so perfectly the secrets of the human heart.” —USA Today“Lucid and revelatory. . . . Both universal and deeply felt.” —The Washington Post Book World“Graceful and devastating. . . . A gorgeous, meticulous and inviting work . . . of an artist wise in enigmas and human mystery.” —The Miami Herald
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