Eastern premise
Jhumpa Lahiri’s subtle brand of storytelling, merging the cultures of East and West, won her the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 – but nothing prepared her for the experience of becoming a target for the Indian paparazzi.
Jhumpa Lahiri’s subtle brand of storytelling, merging the cultures of East and West, won her the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 – but nothing prepared her for the experience of becoming a target for the Indian paparazzi.
When Jhumpa Lahiri was growing up in Massachusetts, her parents would often bring her back to their native India for holidays.
Terrified at the prospect that relatives would consider their daughter an ‘‘American’’ child, in Calcutta, certain ...
