Hell-Heaven

Jhumpa Lahiri
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionPranab 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.
Genres: Short StoriesFictionIndiaNovelsLoveAdult FictionLiteratureIndian LiteratureContemporaryNovella
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