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...Jhumpa Lahiri won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this moving collection of stories about Indian-Americans and the challenges of immigration. Some of the tales hit close to home, like "Third and Final Continent," about an Indian man who struggles to adapt to life in Cambridge and eventually sends a son to Harvard...
Indian-American literature has been sparse until recently, but Lahiri's book, her first, should shine a new spotlight on this growing genre. A beautiful, sensitive collection that will please the readers on your shopping list...
Since the release of her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, last June, JHUMPA LAHIRI, 32, has won almost every award bestowed on a first book of fiction. "Those were unexpected and amazing, but given the category, at least they made some rational sense," says Lahiri. She was wholly unprepared, however, for the news last week that she had won a Pulitzer Prize. "This is the stuff of miracles," she says. "Not even my publisher knew I was in the running." Lahiri, whose parents are from India, was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. Currently, she lives...
...much for the quaint and condescending label Anglo-Indian. Would anyone tag Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka an Anglo-African? Mishra, Jha, Sharma and other promising Indian-rooted writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Interpreter of Maladies recently won the New Yorker Book Award for best debut, work in an age when East and West are cross-pollinating at a dizzying pace...
...Nancy H. Kim Ronald Y. Kim Boris Khentov Danielle J. King Matthew T. Kishlansky Adam J. Klein Michael L. Klein Tom M. Kolokotrones Ronald Y. Koo Alison M. Kraus Gregory S. Krauss Justin M. Krebs Praveen S. Krishna Taissa N. Kuncio Ilana N. Kurshan Jennifer C. Laine Sukanya Lahiri India F. Landrigan Eugenie A. Lang Melissa R. Langsam Benjamin A. Lanson Carmelo Larose Garrett L. Law Bryan S. Lee Joseph J. Lee Laura T. Lee Linus Lee William S. Lee Adrienne Leight Jessica Leino Franklin J. Leonard Zachary D. Levenick Sarah A. Levin Matthew S. Levine Vincent G. Levy Benjamin...