Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond

Author:

Jhumpa Lahiri

Publisher:

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA

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Publisher

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA

ISBN-13

9788172235024

ISBN-10 9788172235024
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 208 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 14 x 1.5 x 21.5
Weight (grms) 190

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.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri, born as Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, is a famous Indian American author. She's a part of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Apart from this book, she has also authored a short story collection called Interpreter of Maladies and novels like Namesake and The Lowland. She has been awarded with the Pulitzer Prize in the fiction category and was nominated for the National Book Award for fiction and the Man Booker Prize.
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