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29/12/2017

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A short story for Radio 4 by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri.

By Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri. A teenage girl in a remote Italian village wonders why her life is so different from those who holiday there. Read by Deeivya Meir.

A new story for Radio 4 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri. Set in a remote Italian village, a teenage girl, of immigrant parents, wonders why her life is so different from those of the happy, glossy young families who come to holiday there.

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for her debut short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies and the Frank O'Connor Award for her collection Unaccustomed Earth. She has recently been awarded the 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short story
Reader: Deeivya Meir
Abridged and produced by Justine Willett.

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