Jhumpa Lahiri



Jhumpa Lahiri

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born January 01, 1967
gender female
place of birth London, England, United Kingdom
genre Literature & Fiction

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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in July 1967, in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age. Lahiri graduated from South Kingstown High School and later received her B.A. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989. She then received multiple degrees from Boston University: an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She took up a fellowship at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997-1998).

In 2001, she married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of...more

books by Jhumpa Lahiri

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avg rating: 3.99 | 33952 ratings | 6 distinct works
Interpreter of Maladies Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 4.12 — 9710 ratings — published 2000
28 editions
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The Namesake The Namesake (Paperback)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 3.84 — 761 ratings — published 2004
29 editions
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Unaccustomed Earth Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 4.41 — 565 ratings — published 2008
7 editions
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The Namesake: A Portrait of th... The Namesake: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)
by Jhumpa Lahiri, Mira Nair
avg rating 4.09 — 33 ratings — published 2004
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Kassin Social Psychology Seven... Kassin Social Psychology Seventh Edition Plus Lahiri The Namesakepaperback (Hardcover)
by Saul Kassin, Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 2008
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The Six Systems: In Quest of t... The Six Systems: In Quest of the Self Within ... = Sara Darsan (Hardcover)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2003
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quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri

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"They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end."
Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)
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"still, there are times i am bewildered by each mile i have traveled, each meal i have eaten, each person i have known, each room in which i have slept. as ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination."
Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies)
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"On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl."
Jhumpa Lahiri
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