Jhumpa Lahiri, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (291p) ISBN 978-0-395-92721-2
One of the most anticipated books of the year, Lahiri's first novel (after 1999's Pulitzer Prize–winning Interpreter of Maladies) amounts to less than the sum of its parts. Hopscotching across 25 years, it begins when newlyweds Ashoke
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Jhumpa Lahiri, Author . Knopf $25 (333p) ISBN 978-0-307-26573-9
The gulf that separates expatriate Bengali parents from their American-raised children—and that separates the children from India—remains Lahiri's subject for this follow-up to Interpreter of Maladies
and The Namesake
. In this set of eight...
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Jhumpa Lahiri, Author Mariner Books $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-395-92720-5
The rituals of traditional Indian domesticity--curry-making, hair-vermilioning--both buttress the characters of Lahiri's elegant first collection and mark the measure of these fragile people's dissolution. Frequently finding themselves in Cambridge,
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Jhumpa Lahiri. Knopf, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-26574-6
Lahiri’s (The Namesake) haunting second novel crosses generations, oceans, and the chasms that despair creates within families. Subhash and Udayan are brothers, 15 months apart, born in Calcutta in the years just before Indian independence and the...
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Jhumpa Lahiri, read by Sunil Malhotra. Random House Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-7393-4181-0
When Subhash’s closest friend and brother, Udayan, is killed because of his participation in a revolutionary movement in Calcutta in the 1960s, he attempts to do the responsible thing and take his brother’s pregnant wife, Gauri, with him to the...
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Jhumpa Lahiri, trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Knopf, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-87555-1
Readers who have followed Pulitzer-winner Lahiri's stellar career might be surprised to discover that she has written her latest book in Italian. In this slim, lyrical nonfiction debut, Lahiri (The Lowland) traces the progress of her love affair...
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Jhumpa Lahiri, trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein, read by Jhumpa Lahiri. Random House Audio, unabridged, 6 CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-399-56620-2
Lahiri, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist of Interpreter of Maladies, tries her hand at memoir—and audiobook narration—with this brief recounting of her quest to immerse herself in the Italian language. She tells of her initial passion...
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Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Aleksandar Hemon,
read by Condola Rashad, Boyd Gaines, B.D. Wong, and Rita Wolf. Selected Shorts, , unabridged, two CDs, 2 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 978-1-934033-15-9
In Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck,” a young Nigerian immigrant is both adored and objectified by her white boyfriend. Condola Rashad’s narration gives the story energy, but her American accent fails to convey the narrator’s Igbo cadences. In...
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Jhumpa Lahiri, Author, Sarita Choudhury, Read by , read by Sarita Choudhury. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0695-6
This recording features a spare, elegant reading by Choudhury of a story about identity, cultural assimilation and the burden of the past. Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli move from Calcutta to Cambridge, Mass., where they have a son who ends up being...
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Jhumpa Lahiri. Knopf, $23 (176p) ISBN 978-0-593-31831-7
The latest from Pulitzer winner Lahiri (The Interpreter of Maladies) is a meditative and aching snapshot of a life in suspension. The unnamed narrator, a single, middle-aged woman, lives a quiet life in an unnamed Italian city, ambling between cafes
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Jhumpa Lahiri, trans. from the Italian by the author and Todd Portnowitz. Knopf, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-53632-2
Lahiri (Whereabouts) delivers a dazzling collection of nine stories originally written in Italian and featuring characters who grapple with vast emotional and social chasms that cleave the lives of families, longtime friends, and immigrants. In “The
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