Wall Street Journal about this book:
"Ms. Lahiri expertly captures the out-of-context lives of immigrants, expatriates and first-generation Americans of Indian descent. And she astutely shows the leaps of faith that are required to keep their marriages glued together ... She is a writer of uncommon sensitivity and restraint."


I particularly love the title story and "A real durwan" (Girandola)

The book is on its way to Mei in Japan who asked it from me in Bookmooch.

Thanks for sharing!

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Going surface mail to Indonesia. Wish I were going too!

thanks mel..
you are welcomed to Indonesia any time ;)

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off to a fellow bookmoocher

Mooched from a fellow BookCrosser. Thanks so much for sending it.


Amazon Editorial Review:
"Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant. She is an important and powerful new voice."


First published in 1999, this book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year.

Won by CdnBlueRose in the Treasure Hunt relay at BookObsessed.com
It's still TBR.

I read this wonderful collection of stories on a trans Australia flight from Perth to Brisbane about 10 days ago, (despite a baby three rows back screaming non-stop for the first two hours of the trip). The writing is just beautiful and the situations and emotions of the characters described with great sensitivity, poignancy, insight and compassion.

The stories examine various human 'maladies': loneliness, grief, regret etc, with the characters either being based on the Indian subcontinent or having emigrated from there to the USA. Each story leaves you with the feeling that you have come to 'know' the protagonists better than in many full length novels, and also that you just want to continue to know more about them still; how they fare and how they feel, which is surely one mark of an excellent short story.

Now off to CdnBlueRose in the mail tomorrow . . . thanks for your patience.

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Posted from the Balingup Post Office today.
Going to CdnBlueRose as part of the Treasure Hunt relay on BookObsessed.com

Received yesterday - thank you!!