Title: Unaccustomed Earth
Publisher: Knopf, N. Y.
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: SIGNED
Edition: First Edition.
Very fine, new, clean, crisp and unread first printing, SIGNED neatly by the author with her name only to the title page, bound in fresh, sharp ivory boards, gold titles stamped to the spine, and fine pictorial dust jacket. Lahiri is the celebrated author of the Interpreter of Maladies which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award and the equally acclaimed novel The Namesake. Unaccustomed Earth is a brilliant collection of eight jewel-like stories. considers the lives of Bengali American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. The book was Lahiri's first #1 on the New York Times Best-sellers list, where it debuted at the top spot. Writing in The New York Times, Liesl Schillinger says, "Reading her stories is like watching time-lapse nature videos of different plants, each with its own inherent growth cycle, breaking through the soil, spreading into bloom or collapsing back to earth."