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...Jhumpa Lahiri...
...anxiously looking forward to the Jhumpa Lahiri novel The Namesake because I loved Interpreter of Maladies. When I got a copy, I said, I can't wait to go home, get in bed and read it. I loved it, loved it, loved it. What I liked a lot also was A Mighty Heart, Mariane Pearl's book about Danny Pearl, which is a beautiful book. I was also very crazy about Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking, a novel told from the point of view of the best friend of a teacher who's having an affair with...
...prize-giving season again in the land of literature: the Nobel and the Booker both dropped this month, and the National Book Award finalists have been announced. (With neither Jhumpa Lahiri nor Jonathan Lethem in the mix, Edward Jones' magisterial The Known World is the favorite to sweep a weak field.) Which reminds us that there are only two living Americans who own a Nobel Prize for Literature. One is Saul Bellow, and the other is Toni Morrison, whose first novel in five years is called Love (Knopf; 202 pages). With a title like that, you'd better have...
READINGS | Jhumpa Lahiri and Lan Samantha Chang...
...Jhumpa Lahiri is well known as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her debut short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and her recent bestseller The Namesake. She sets her stories mainly in the Cambridge area and is one of literature’s most promising young talents. Her only competition might come from her co-reader Lan Samantha Chang, who has received lavish praise for her own debut work Hunger. 7 p.m. MIT, Rm. 10-250, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...