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The Lowland

The Lowland
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to modern

From Subhash’s earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his...

In Other Words

In Other Words
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love...

Roman Stories

Roman Stories
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived...

Interpreter of Maladies

Interpreter of Maladies
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): West Bengal, Boston
  • Era(s): Modern

Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives...

The Namesake

The Namesake
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): India, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

‘The Namesake’ is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America. ‘When her grandmother learned of Ashima’s pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family’s first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have...

Whereabouts

Whereabouts
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian city The woman moves through the city, her city, on...

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