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.
Jhumpa Lahiri is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and The New Yorker Debut of the Year. Her novel The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by many publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
认识Jhumpa Lahiri是从她的《疾病解说者》开始的,文字清澈而柔和,感情细腻。后来读了一篇关于她的采访,才知道她与俄国文字的渊源,以及那种白描风格的源头。但是不得不说的是,这种纠结感情的讲述手法,从俄国男人的白桦林转到美国女人的感情世界,多少带上了一种怨妇腔。幸...
评分认识Jhumpa Lahiri是从她的《疾病解说者》开始的,文字清澈而柔和,感情细腻。后来读了一篇关于她的采访,才知道她与俄国文字的渊源,以及那种白描风格的源头。但是不得不说的是,这种纠结感情的讲述手法,从俄国男人的白桦林转到美国女人的感情世界,多少带上了一种怨妇腔。幸...
评分 评分刚开始是在学校看到有同学在阿里推打折网http://www.alitui.com/remai/买了这个版本,我翻了下质量蛮好的之后就开始迷恋了 之前在印度旅行的时候买了原版书Unaccustomed Earth,非常好的一本小说集。写出了印度第二代移民在中西方文化之间的游荡和碰撞,远离和回归。
评分移民文学究竟会走到什么境界?除了疏离、恐惧、遗憾,是不是有些东西被蒙在移民文学这个标签下缺少了更深层次的思索,只是因为不适所以更多的问题凸显了,比如爱情,比如失去,比如童年。从这个角度说,拉西里写什么样的故事是不重要的,即使是曲折反复的爱情故事,也看过太多...
in comparision with the meaningful title story,it's a pity that part two is a bit cliche,one might anticipate short stories are the writer's stronghold.
评分以后要是教英文系,一定会把这本书推荐给学生。作者很擅长用朴素平时的语言勾勒出人与人之间复杂微妙的情感。每个短片都有不同的叙事视角,每个细节都合情合理地安排在叙事结构中,不多不少,连贯一致。要搞英文创作,这是一本不错的范例。
评分like her short stories better.
评分千篇一律
评分ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY 流出+毛边,不如作者的第一部短篇集
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