Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America.
“Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth.
An eBook short.
Praise for Jhumpa Lahiri and Unaccustomed Earth
“Stunning. . . . Gorgeous. . . . Never before has Lahiri mined so perfectly the secrets of the human heart.” —USA Today
“Lucid and revelatory. . . . Both universal and deeply felt.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Graceful and devastating. . . . A gorgeous, meticulous and inviting work . . . of an artist wise in enigmas and human mystery.” —The Miami Herald
Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America.
“Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth.
An eBook short.
Praise
Praise for Jhumpa Lahiri and Unaccustomed Earth
“Stunning. . . . Gorgeous. . . . Never before has Lahiri mined so perfectly the secrets of the human heart.” —USA Today
“Lucid and revelatory. . . . Both universal and deeply felt.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Graceful and devastating. . . . A gorgeous, meticulous and inviting work . . . of an artist wise in enigmas and human mystery.” —The Miami Herald
