'Lahiri's enormous gifts as a storyteller are on full display ... gorgeous'

Khaled Hosseini

'Probably the most influential writer of fiction in America'

Financial Times

'Contains some of the best, most beautiful fiction written this decade - the kind that will be read 50 years from now'

New Statesman

'It's difficult to think of a contemporary writer who gives her characters so much dignity ... Fiction of matchless restraint, yet also of rich, complex lives and credible characters'

The Times