![]() ![]() Lahiri's prose is graceful and steady, almost placid on the surface. ![]() By the time her latest novel was released in the United States on Tuesday, it had already appeared on the National Book Awards Longlist and the Man Booker Prize Shortlist.Īccolades are just that, though: trophies the real prize, and the reason you should read Lahiri, is found in her pages. ![]() That collection won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize since then, Lahiri's books - "The Namesake" (2003), "Unaccustomed Earth" (2008) and now "The Lowland" - have inspired high expectations. This is how it's always been in Lahiri's work, since her debut short story collection, "Interpreter of Maladies," traced the displacement and disorientation of its Bengali-American characters. Like the water hyacinth, Lahiri's characters float tethered together and yet unmoored, roots left dangling. ![]()
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