07003cam a2200457 4500 233528386 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781415943571 1415943575 76c1e5dd-8eb1-4748-b3a3-bb70da672875 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 160495 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth [Libby Audiobook] : Stories. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2008. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 279MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 279MB. HTML:"Jhumpa Lahiri's characters tend to be immigrants from India and their American-reared children, exiles who straddle two countries, two cultures, and belong to neither: too used to freedom to accept the rituals and conventions of home, and yet too steeped in tradition to embrace American mores fully. . . . Ms. Lahiri writes about these people in Unaccustomed Earth with an intimate knowledge of their conflicted hearts, using her lapidary eye for detail to conjure their daily lives with extraordinary precision . . . A Chekhovian sense of loss blows through these new stories: a reminder of Ms. Lahiri's appreciation of the wages of time and mortality and her understanding too of the missed connections that plague her husbands and wives, parents and children, lovers and friends. [Lahiri] deftly explicates the emotional arithmetic of her characters' families . . . showing how some of the children learn to sidestep, even defy, their parents' wishes. But she also shows how haunted they remain by the burden of their families' dreams and their awareness of their role in the generational process of Americanization. . . The last three overlapping tales tell a single story about a Bengali-American girl and a Bengali-American boy, whose crisscrossing lives make up a poignant ballad of love and loss and death. They embark on a passionate affair that concludes not with a fairy-tale happy ending but with a denouement that speaks of missed opportunities and avoidable grief. . . . an ending that possesses the elegiac and haunting power of tragedy--a testament to Lahiri's emotional wisdom and consummate artistry as a writer.". HTML:Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times. HTML:From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he's harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he's keeping all to himself. In "A Choice of Accommodations," a husband's attempt to turn an old friend's wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In "Only Goodness," a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in "Hema and Kaushik," a trio of linked stories–a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate–we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Sarita Choudhury and Ajay Naidu take turns reading this collection of eight stories, in which Indian immigrants and their Americanized offspring struggle with questions of family, identity, love, and loss. Choudhury's pleasantly husky voice offers shrewd insights into Lahiri's work. She beautifully replicates the voices of Indian parents and captures the nuances of conversations between characters. Naidu excels at dramatizing the frequent dialogue in these stories, especially among Indian characters. In a few places Naidu's narration strikes the ear strangely (the odd emphasis here, the too forcefully bitter or sarcastic moment there), though this impression fades as the stories build in intensity and meaning. Both narrators allow the stories' resonance on the theme of loss to emerge in a quiet yet achingly poignant way. J.C.G. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:"Ferociously good . . . acutely observed . . . In exquisitely attuned prose, Lahiri notes the clash between generations . . . She is emotionally precise about her characters and the way the world appears to them, especially in the superb 'Hema and Kaushik' [trilogy], which achingly reveals how two very unlikely families end up under one suburban roof, and how destiny entwines them forever. These are unforgettable people, their stories unforgettably well told.". HTML:Elaina Richardson, O, The Oprah Magazine. "[Lahiri] explores with her modulated prose a full range of relationships among her subjects. So thoroughly and judiciously does she use detail that she easily presents entire lives with each story. These are tales of careful observation and adjustment . . . Most moving is the final trio of intertwined stories about loss and connection.". HTML:The Atlantic. "Dazzling . . . [Lahiri's] comparisons with literary masters such as Alice Munro are well-earned. In these eight exquisitely detailed stories, Lahiri is less interested in painf. HTML:Carmela Ciuraru, More. Short Stories. Fiction. 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