خاک غریب نوشته جومپا لاهیری نویسنده سرشناس هندی شامل مجموعه داستان هایی ایست که نویسنده تلاش کرده به تفاوت نسل ها و فرهنگ ها و نگاه ها و دید گاه ها بپردازد . کتاب او دو بخش را شامل می شود : بخش اول 5 داستانی که گرچه جدا از هم هستند اما محیط و فضای یکسانی دارند . شخصیتهای داستان خانم لاهپری مهاجرانی هندی هستند که تلاش می کنند که خود را با کشور جدید – آمریکا وفق دهند . آنچه از آنان شاهد هستیم سردرگمی نسل اول در تطبیق دادن خود با سنت و فرهنگ آمریکا و غالبا فراموش کردن زبان و سنت کشور مادر توسط نسل ...

I’m gonna make this review lopsided right out the gate because I want to say the short story “Hell-Heaven” in this collection blew me away, gave me hope to live, and reminded me of the power of fiction at its finest. In the story, we follow a Bengali family living in the United States and what happens when the mother within the family falls in love with a fellow Bengali man who inserts himself into their dynamic, all through the perspective of the young daughter within the family. I think “Hell-...

Todos los que amamos la literatura somos conscientes de esa magia que en ciertas ocasiones surge de las palabras sin que podamos pillar el truco que hay detrás, sin que podamos identificar ese ingrediente que hace que ese texto, nada singular en apariencia, nos altere de una forma especial. Quizás sea justo esa incapacidad la respuesta al enigma —descubrir el truco desvanece la magia— o, simplemente, que esa forma de combinar las palabras encierra un abracadabra capaz de provocárnosla. Sea como ...

می‌تونم روزها و ماه‌ها و سال‌ها داستان‌های جومپا لاهیری رو بخونم و خسته نشم. خسته نشم از این مشترکات همیشگی، از آدم‌هایی که اهل کلکته اند و ساکن ایالت ماساچوست، از تنهایی و غم تلمبار شده لا‌به‌لای لحظه‌های زندگی، از جزئیاتی که باحوصله روایت میشن و قلبتو تسخیر میکنن.فکر میکنم بعدها هر از چندگاهی یکی از داستان‌ها رو مرور کنم و اندازه‌ی خوردن یه فنجون قهوه وسط شلوغیای روز باهاش کیف کنم و یادم بندازه زندگی ما آدم‌ها، همین روزمرگی‌هاست، همین اتفاقات کوچیک و بزرگ بی اهمیت که احساساتمون رو شکل میدن و م...

These eight short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri are quiet, penetrating, and meticulously written. The first five stories are distinct, while the last three are interrelated. Lahiri's prose seems so clean and precise that it is very easy to turn page after page despite the fact that her stories are not really plot-driven. Rather, each story delves into the psyche of each character with such skill that the reader can't help but feel extremely intimate with each one, whether male or female, likable or o...

These short stories are about Bengali immigrants from the Bengal area of India, around Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). But these folks are not urban slumdogs or even rural slumdogs, arriving with manure on their shoes. These are high-end folks with PhDs and MDs who grew up speaking English in India and who came to the USA to be doctors, professors and engineers in the high-tech beltway bandit firms around Boston. (The author grew up in the US where her father worked at the University of Rhode Islan...

RACCONTARE UN RACCONTO”The Namesake – Il destino nel nome”, regia di Mira Nair, dal romanzo omonimo di Jhumpa Lahiri. 2006.Sono racconti lunghi mai meno di 30 pagine. I primi cinque sono ispirati allo stesso tema e sembrano comporre una sezione a se stante; gli ultimi tre compongono un tutto unico, la storia di Hema e Kaushik, e confermano la sensazione di essere davanti a romanzi brevi, più che a classici racconti: Lahiri racconta storie che vanno avanti negli anni, a volte vite intere, e descr...

I have often stated that I do not enjoy short stories, but although this is designated as such, it oversimplifies the content of this book. With understated elegance, Lahiri has drawn in the reader to become immersed in tales of families, lovers and friends. She has the unique ability to simply, but fascinatingly communicate the features of the characters' behaviors, thoughts and emotions. In addition, she is able to express such dimensions so wellthat I felt I had become acquainted with these p...

The title of Lahiri’s latest book—Unaccustomed Earth—refers to the first story in this collection but also to a motif dominating all of the stories: tales about a world unaccustomed to the shifts and changes taking place on its surface, a world uncomfortable with the destruction and loss brought on by hurricanes and tsunamis, unfamiliar with modern diseases and traumas, and unsure about the class and cultural conflicts that dominate relationships in the lives of Lahiri’s characters. The earth th...

As I progressed through the first four stories, I became more and more angry. I couldn't understand why Lahiri would put out another book that was almost identical to to her first. She seemed to have retreated even further into her "safe space", writing only about Bengali Americans who study at ivy league schools, have well educated albeit maladjusted parents and struggle with redefining relationships after relocation. I expected a lot more when I read the title and its reference to Nathaniel Ha...