Acknowledgments
I wish to thank the Frederick Lewis Allen Memorial Room at the New York Public Library, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the American Academy in Rome for their generous support.
The following sources were essential to my understanding of the Naxalite movement: India’s Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising by Sumanta Banerjee, The Naxalite Movement by Biplab Dasgupta, “India’s Third Communist Party” (in Asian Survey, vol. 9, no. 11) by Marcus F. Franda, The Crimson Agenda: Maoist Protest and Terror by Ranjit Gupta, Maoist “Spring Thunder”: The Naxalite Movement (1967–1972) by Arun Prosad Mukherjee, The Naxalites Through the Eyes of the Police edited by Ashoke Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Naxalites and Their Ideology by Rabindra Ray, The Naxalite Movement in India by Prakash Singh, and the website sanhati.com.
I am also grateful to the following individuals: Gautam Bhadra, Mihir Chakraborty, Robin Desser, Amitava Ganguli, Avijit Gangopadhyay, Dan Kaufman, Aniruddha Lahiri, Cressida Leyshon, Subrata Mozumder, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Eric Simonoff, Arunava Sinha, and Charles Wilson.
A Note About the Author
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of three previous works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake and, most recently, 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.
Also by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth
The Namesake
WINNER OF THE FRANK O’CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories – longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written – take us from America to Europe, India and Thailand as they follow new lives forged in the wake of loss.
‘Lahiri’s enormous gifts as a storyteller are on full display in this collection’ Khaled Hosseini
‘If you have never read her before, you are in for a treat. She is a gifted storyteller, and once you have immersed yourself in her prose it is difficult to break free from her spell’ Tatler
‘It’s difficult to think of a contemporary writer who gives her characters so much dignity … Fiction of matchless restraint, yet also of rich, complex lives and credible characters’ The Times
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