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Summary: Contains nine short stories which chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the borders of nations and generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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Summary: "Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: Two brothers bound by tragedy. A fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past. A country torn by revolution. A love that lasts long past death. An extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: the best-selling author of The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Books On Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Contents: A temporary matter.--When Mr. Pirzada came to dine.--Interpreter of maladies.--A real durwan.--Sexy.--Mrs. Sen's.--This blessed house.--The treatment of Bibi Haldar.--The third and final continent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa.
Contents: Unaccustomed earth -- Hell-heaven -- A choice of accommodations -- Only goodness -- Nobody's business -- Hema and Kaushik -- Once in a lifetime -- Year's end -- Going ashore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2008
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Summary: Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times best-selling author gives us a powerful new novel, set in both India and America, that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death. Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan, charismatic and impulsive, finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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Summary: A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Yma dream / Thomas Meehan (10:46)-- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara (20:00)-- The fix / Percival Everett (29:22)-- disc 2. The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson (21:01)-- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri (51:50)-- disc 3. Valor / Richard Bausch (47:25)-- Enough / Alice McDermott (20:06).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NAMContents: Disc 1. Good living / Aleksandar Hemon (performed by Boyd Gaines) (13:22) -- Hell-heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri (performed by Rita Wolf) (49:29) -- Disc 2. The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (performed by Condola Rashad) (25:04) -- Breaking and entering / Sherman Alexie (performed by B.D. Wong) (30:20).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELStarnone, Domenico
Summary: Ties is the story of a marriage. Like many marriages, this one has been subject to strain, to attrition, to the burden of routine. Yet it has survived intact. Or so things appear. The rupture in Vanda and Aldo's marriage lies years in the past, but if one looks closely enough, the fissures and fault lines are evident. Their marriage is a cracked vase that may shatter at the slightest touch. Or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2017