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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri. Houghton Mifflin: 1999 (paperback). ISBN: 039592720X. 198 pages.
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Yes, this collection of stories won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. And it deserved it.
Here's yet another fabulous new voice, from yet another disgustingly young brilliant mind. The only problem is that it's
Lahiri's first book, and it's only two hundred pages. We want more, more, more! Do you hear us Jhumpa? Lahiri's characters--
a bevy of immigrants, expatriates, and disenchanted natives, mostly from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan--are struggling to
make sense of lives which seem strangely out of touch with mainstream society and that society's expectations. The writing
is good, clean, and simple, so straight-forward that you're almost surprised by the powerful images and issues that emerge.
But emerge they do, and your classroom or book group is guaranteed to enjoy a heated discussion in considering the strange
things that tend to happen when cultures clash, and when people discover each other's most protected and dangerous secrets.
If you or your group is interested in reading a short story collection, this is a great place to start, and if you're not,
read it anyway.
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