Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri talks to Harriett Gilbert and the World Book Club audience about her book of short stories Unaccustomed Earth.
This month a chance to hear Pulitzer Prize winning Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, whose new novel The Lowland has just been shortlisted for the British Man Booker Prize.
With presenter Harriett Gilbert and a studio full of readers Lahiri talks about her acclaimed short story collection Unaccustomed Earth, whose eight tales consider the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment.
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, the book explores how family life and relationships are affected by the uprootings and resettlings of the Bengali immigrant experience.
Picture: Jhumpa Lahiri. Credit: Marco Delogu.
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