Jhumpa Lahiri Reads "The Boundary"

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Jan 23, 2018

Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story from the January 29, 2018, issue of the magazine. Lahiri is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. Her first book, "Interpreter of Maladies," won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and her most recent novel, "The Lowland," was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in 2014.

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