Jhumpa Lahiri: winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri's first novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003 and a film version was released in 2007. Her new book of short stories, entitled Unaccustomed Earth, will be published in 2008.

Tuesday - March 4, 2008
7:00 pm - MIT Room 32-123
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

(for directions go to: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg)

Free and open to the public - no tickets/reservations required. For information call 617-253-7894.

Sponsored by the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, the Literature Section and Foreign Languages and Literatures

"There is nothing accidental about her success; her plots are as elegantly constructed as a fine proof in mathematics."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"She has talent -- magical, sly, cumulative -- that most writers would kill for."
-- Guardian (UK)

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