Unaccustomed Earth

　　或許那片土地不是血源和生命誕生之地，卻是讓人成長、茁壯的地方！

　　以《醫生的翻譯員》獲得普利茲文學獎的鍾芭．拉希莉，筆觸細膩、感情豐沛。在她筆下，一篇篇看似靜態的故事裡，皆隱藏著巨大的內力。有旅居異鄉者對故鄉的遙想，也有對西方世界的憧憬；有父母們踏上回歸的旅程，兒孫們渴望邁入現代文明。有些人心碎地離開；有些人沉默地留下。從孟買到西雅圖，從加爾各答到羅馬，不論是對愛情的感動，身處異地的不適，婚姻的考驗，同儕間的競爭，雖彷彿輕薄的紗麗在空中飄盪，但孤獨與不安、歡喜或悲傷卻在異國生長並向下扎根。

★本書中文版《陌生的土地》由天培出版

　　From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.

　　In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories—a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate—we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.

　　Unaccustomed Earth is rich with Jhumpa Lahiri’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers.

作者簡介

鍾芭．拉希莉（Jhumpa Lahiri）

　　生於倫敦，成長於美國羅德島。波士頓大學英國文學碩士、比較文學及藝術碩士、創意寫作碩士、文藝復興博士。曾獲得「古根漢研究基金」。作品《醫生的翻譯員》曾獲普立茲文學獎、海明威筆會文學獎、以及《紐約客》年度最佳新作。之後的作品《同名之人》則入選《紐約時報》年度注目選書、也被《洛杉磯時報》、《美國今日報》和《娛樂周刊》等多家媒體選為年度好書。現居紐約布魯克林。

　　Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of two previous books. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and The New Yorker Debut of the Year. Her novel, The Namesake, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.