Interpreter of Maladies

short stories by Lahiri

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discussed in biography

  • Jhumpa Lahiri, 2013
    In Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies

    …stories in her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). The nine stories, some set in Calcutta and others on the U.S. East Coast, examine such subjects as the practice of arranged marriage, alienation, dislocation, and loss of culture.

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“The Namesake”

  • Jhumpa Lahiri
    In The Namesake

    …collection of short stories entitled Interpreter of Maladies (1999), which had earned her the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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