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Original Title:	Interpreter of Maladies
ISBN:	0618101365 (ISBN13: 9780618101368)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dev, Elliot, Miranda, Shobha, Lilia, Shukumar, Mr. Pirzada, Mr. Das, Mrs. Das, Mr. Kapasi, Boori Maa, Mrs. Dalal, Laxmi, Mrs. Sen, Sanjeev, Twinkle
Setting:	Boston, Massachusetts(United States) Kolkata(India) Odisha(India) …more Connecticut(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2000), Puddly Award for Short Stories (2001)

Interpreter of Maladies Paperback | Pages: 198 pages

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Title	:	Interpreter of Maladies
Author	:	Jhumpa Lahiri
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 198 pages
Published	:	May 22nd 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published April 20th 1999)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. India

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Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant.

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An interesting collection of short stories, mostly concerning the experience of Indian emigrants in America. I do not usually read short stories but I saw many good reviews about this collection and I decided to give it a try. I am glad I did and it made me want to read more short stories in the future. All stories are a little bit bittersweet, some even made my cry.

Hows this for blurbs: when the female author published this collection of short stories at age 32 in 1999, she won the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen/Hemingway Award and the New Yorkers Debut Book of the Year. Like the authors other collection of shorts that I have reviewed (Unaccustomed Earth, 2008) these stories are about Bengali immigrants in the US from the Bengal area of India, around Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). There are about 250 million Bengalis in the subcontinent, about 2/3 making up the

A beautiful collection of stories. The way Jhumpa Lahiri brings the ordinariness of life alive through her words. I simply loved this book. One Ill treasure by my bedside table to reread many times over.

You know a book is good when someone asks you for a synopsis, or snippet, or impression, and all you can do is smile there, enveloped in some subtle magic that only you know about, & kinda forget what it was all about altogether. This happened with "Interpreter of Maladies", a perfectly-titled collection of short stories about Indian Americans in India or in the U.S. Their ages & experiences range from children to marrieds to 103 year-olds, from tourism in the old world to the natural

In this stirring collection of short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri displays the diasporic struggle of men, assailed by nightmares of home, over the dilemma of assimilating into the new world or holding on to the past culture. The author exhibits her majestic power of story telling with such grace and allure that the most wonderful thing happened to me today. I seemed to have lost the sense of 'time' while reading this splendid depiction of the plight of the homeless. This doesn't happen often. I was

Someone who hasnt heard about Jhumpa Lahiris award winning collection of short stories yet, hasnt been paying attention. This is the 9.178th review on the book, and Im the 140.434th Goodreads member to rate it. My review will probably land somewhere on the 30th spot. Not at all because its good, but because I was lucky to have found supportive friends, who understand how important it is for a person to get a little attention and to be able to share their experiences with others. We understand

I usually don't enjoy short stories that much. Collections of short stories tend to have stories that are really strong mixed together with ones that aren't and this was no exception. I do think the foreward for the kindle edition that I had contributed a lot to my enjoyment of the stories. It really helped frame a connecting thread through out each story and tied it back to the title of the collection. I'm not sure if I would have enjoyed the stories as much without having the foreward