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Jhumpa Lahiri Named Finalist For U.S. National Book Award
It said the novel about two "brothers bound by tragedy" is a "work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity.
"It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers."
Lahiri's new work was nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize but she lost to 28-year-old Eleanor Catton, who became the youngest writer ever to win the prestigious award for her book 'The Luminaries'.
Lahiri is the author of three previous works of fiction 'Interpreter of Maladies', 'The Namesake' and 'Unaccustomed Earth'.
A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012.
Among this year's finalists for fiction are Rachel Kushner for 'The Flamethrowers,' George Saunders for 'Tenth of December' and Thomas Pynchon for 'Bleeding Edge'.
Born in London and based in New York, 46-year-old Lahiri is the daughter of Indian immigrants from West Bengal.
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Source: PTI
