Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates; a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homeland! Jhumpa Lahiri's prose is beautifully measured, subtle and sober, and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid, but this work is rich in observational detail, evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here), and full of emotional pull and reverberation.

普利策奖获奖作品，是一位有前途的孟加拉裔波士顿妇女对渴望和流亡的精辟研究。一对夫妇在波士顿的公寓里每晚停电时交换前所未有的忏悔，他们努力应对令人心碎的损失；一个学生来到神秘的新土地上的新住所，当他等待来自孟加拉的包办婚姻的妻子到来时，他在他的百岁女房东策划的奇怪的晚上仪式的帮助下，找到了他的第一个方向。一个小学生在一旁看着，而他的保姆则发现，最细微的变化都会使她的美国新生活失去平衡，并使她陷入对故乡的怀念之中。朱姆帕-拉希里的散文优美有度，微妙而清醒，她是一位留下很多话没说的作家，但这部作品有丰富的观察细节，唤起了流亡者（这里主要是波士顿的印度人）的渴望，并充满了情感的牵引和回响。