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Interpreter of Maladies

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Cultural displacement captured in exquisite prose.

Interpreter of Maladies would be a great read for those interested in exploring the themes of immigration, cultural displacement, and the emotional toll they take on individuals. Lahiri's ability to craft complex and deeply human characters in just a few pages is remarkable. This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories is a must-read for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000)
  • Puddly Award for Short Stories (2001)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (2000)
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Interpreter of Maladies

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ISBN: 9780006551799
Authors: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Date of Publication: 2019-10-31
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.17
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Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates; a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homeland… Jhumpa Lahiri’s prose is beautifully measured, subtle and sober, and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid, but this work is rich in observational detail, evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here), and full of emotional pull and reverberation.
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Cultural displacement captured in exquisite prose.

Interpreter of Maladies would be a great read for those interested in exploring the themes of immigration, cultural displacement, and the emotional toll they take on individuals. Lahiri's ability to craft complex and deeply human characters in just a few pages is remarkable. This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories is a must-read for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000)
  • Puddly Award for Short Stories (2001)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (2000)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.