Saturday, May 10, 2008

Jhumpa Lahiri - Unaccustomed Earth




Just completed this book last night. What a beautiful book. If ever you feel as an outsider...And trust me, we have all felt that way. Well here is a book for you. According to NYT,
“Lahiri handles her characters without leaving any fingerprints. She allows them to grow as if unguided, as if she were accompanying them rather than training them through the espalier of her narration. Reading her stories is like watching time-lapse nature videos of different plants, each with its own inherent growth cycle, breaking through the soil, spreading into bloom or collapsing back to earth.”

One story was set in Thailand..on the beaches. Here is a one of my pics from Puket.


Now Read It.

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