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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Author Biography

Name: Jhumpa Lahiri
Birth Date: 1967
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: Novelist, Short story writer

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Biography of Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri writes fiction about the Indian immigrant experience in America. She surprised the literary world in 2001 when she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her very first full-length effort, a collection of short stories titled Interpreter of...


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The Spectator
The Namesake
01/17/2004: 528 words, approx. 2 pages
Cola versus curry THE NAMESAKE by Jhumpa Lahiri Flamingo, £15.99, pp. 291, ISBN 000225901X Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her first volume of short stories. The Namesake is her first novel, graceful, funny and sad, its theme dislocation and...
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07/01/2004: 370 words, approx. 1 pages
Jhumpa Lahiri HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 2003 Review by Irene D'Souza Three years ago, New York-based Jhumpa Lahiri's short-story debut, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize. Her illuminating and poignant stories described the immigrant experience in the United States. In The Namesake,...
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The New York Observer
Old Movies: Fracture, Hot Fuzz, Disturbia Hold On to Manhattan Box Office
4/30/2007: 496 words, approx. 2 pages
This weekend, as far as the movie studios are concerned, was the last weekend before the official start of summer. So you can forgive them if they took a bit of a break with the big movie releases. (Also, releasing a big movie in Manhattan...
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Iowa agency issues wild parsnip warning
6/21/2007: 275 words, approx. 1 pages
Watch your step when you pull off the road: That's the warning from Iowa environmental officials to help people avoid a burning, blistering itch that could last for months.Wild parsnip _ native to Eurasia and nothing like the namesake root vegetable that adorns entrees at...
 


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