Book
Interpreter of maladies : stories
Record details
- ISBN: 039592720X (sc)
- ISBN: 9780395927205 (sc)
- ISBN: 0618101365
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Physical Description:
198 p. ; 21 cm.
print - Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
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Badges:
- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 2 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Mariner original." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A temporary matter -- When Mr. Pirzada came to dine -- Interpreter of maladies -- A real durwan -- Sexy -- Mrs. Sen's -- This blessed house -- The treatment of Bibi Haldar -- The third and final continent. |
| Awards Note: | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2000. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | East Indian Americans -- Fiction East Indian Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Culture conflict -- Fiction Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction |
| Genre: | Short stories. |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 0 copies available at Creston Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Summary:
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. She is an important and powerful new voice.
