Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri (Paperback) 01-06-2009 Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2009 and Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2008.
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us from America to Europe, India and Thailand as they follow new lives forged in the wake of loss.