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Jhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of five works of fiction: INTERPRETER OF MALADIES, THE NAMESAKE, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, THE LOWLAND and WHEREABOUTS. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for IN ALTRE PAROLE.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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by Jhumpa Lahiri - Fiction

Two brothers born in Calcutta during World War II share a close childhood but separate from one another as adults. Subhash, the older, quieter brother, moves to the US to study marine chemistry. Udayan, the younger and more volatile, stays in India and becomes active in the Naxalite Communist movement. The circumstances that draw them apart and eventually bring their families together form the drama of Jhumpa Lahiri’s second novel.