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.
作者少年写了个短篇集得普利策成名。写来写去大都是印度孟加拉裔跑到美国东北某藤校读博士,然后写那种背景的一代二代的故事。看起来很无趣没什么可写的一群,因为海外大部分30岁以上的中国人也是类似背景,华人论坛上的话题总是那些,但作者却能一本接一本的写,还写出新意,...
评分 评分 评分美籍孟加拉裔印度移民茱帕•拉希里的短篇小说集《不适之地》,好到让人吃惊。 春节过后,飞去外地与亲友小聚,行前抓本薄点的书飞机上读。去途第一篇,也就是用作书名的《不适之地》读了一半,虽被其纤细、安静的书写所吸引,但由于近在眉睫的相聚,并不太能静下心来。久别...
评分Does geography guarantee security? 人类的迁徙行为大体上是为了更好的生存。排除天灾人祸(如战乱,如人口膨胀),人们背井离乡到新的天地,是对安定的寻求,是对美好生活的追逐。 Hawthorne曾经在The Custom-House里表达: transplanting people into new soil makes them ...
在机场看到印度转机的家庭们都觉得亲切了!Lahiri的笔触太细密,brutal and cruel。
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Lahiri 依然细腻犀利。
评分比Interpreter of Maladies更忧郁,写作技巧也更复杂,也有更多禅意。Agony, bitterness, confuse是人生常态。从Hell到Heaven,纯粹因为苦难后的“悟道”。最后一篇Going Ashore,因为几乎亲身经历过,不忍卒读。
评分整体水平不如第一本短篇小说集,但是最后一个故事完完全全击败我了,I am a hopeless romantic.
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