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Unaccustomed Earth | 
 enlarge | Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 5471
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0747590001
EAN: 9780747590002
ASIN: 0747590001
Publication Date: June 2, 2008
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 Bengali TCK Bonanza! September 18, 2008
Jessica (London)
As a Third Culture Kid (TCK) myself, from India, I could completely relate to the characters, their feelings, behaviour, thoughts and relationship dynamics with others. There were traces of my father in Ruma's father; of both my parents in Sudha's parents. The most captivating sotires to me were Nobody's Business because of the simplicity and complexity of love reltaionships and Part Two - Hema and Kaushik's sotry.
H and K, unlike the characters in the other stories, are given longer to develop their love story. The reader lives through glimpses of their childhood, teen years and university life. All eventually leading to their professional lives where they come together and have a love affair. Even though one of them is living out of a suitcase and the ohter is engaged to be married.
Throughout the stories, Lahiri accurately captures the emotion and conflicts of Indian immigrants to the US and briefly to London. There is a melancholy underlying the characters and their various relationships with partners, friends, room-mates and parents as Lahiri brings out their longer to belong to someone or some place matched with their sense of detachment to people and places in different ways. In short, their book, like her first, is a must-read for every Indian immigrant and third culture kid out there.
 Worth a read August 30, 2008
Shreya Sawhney
There is no doubt that Jhumpa Lahiri is an immensely talented author, with an exceptional eye for detail. She can describe the most mundane and commonplace of events in a manner that fascinates you. Having said that, as someone who has read her earlier books, I find her settings and her central premise of confused identities repetitive and tiresome. All her characters marry foreigners and experience a sense of disconnect between their adopted homelands and their places of birth; and their lives convey a sense of tremendous, almost soul-crushing bleakness. Obviously this is not the case with all expats, Indian or otherwise - Lahiri only writes about Bengalis on the East Coast - so it would have been nice if she had changed her subject matter. The stories are well written but leave you feeling empty - "A Choice of Accommodations" in particular. Of the lot, "Hell-Heaven" and "Hema and Kaushik" really stand out, and the latter does not focus solely on immigrant angst, but is a gripping tale of love and destiny. I didn't much care for the others, but would recommend it for these two alone, especially "Hema and Kaushik".
A book I will read and read again July 28, 2008
Malva (UK)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
A friend of mine was raving on and on about Jhumpa Lahiri, in the end I gave in and read Unaccustomed Earth. I went straight out and bought another book by her and then another and another. She is possibly one of the greatest living writers out there, her books sell millions and now I can see why...can't believe I hadn't heard of her before.
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