What do you say when a work that is widely liked and highly celebrated doesn't do for you what it did for others? What I do is slap a three-star rating on it and write a review that expresses my confusion without saying anything positive or negative about the book. In fact, such a review really does...
This is a Pulitzer prize winning collection of short stories. It sometimes, misleadingly, is placed on best Indian books lists. Instead, the author is a first generation immigrant to the West, and while some works deal exclusively with India, the majority are about the immigrant experience and/or ...
An outstanding collection of short stories by an author with a remarkable voice. Most of the stories involve Indian-Americans (one or two are set in India) and their personal struggles in a new land and with each other.
Some of these were quite good (the first one, the title one, the one about the Jesus stuff); some were pretty hackneyed (anything involving old people); the result is a big whatever. It's fine.
I loved Jhumpa Lahiri's latest short story collection 'Unaccustomed Earth', but although 'Interpreter of Maladies' won the Pulitzer, I didn't find the stories as rich or poignant. Excellent writing, but I had high expectations.
Wow! I finished this book with tears in my eyes - the last story, The Third and Final Continent was really moving and powerful, at the same time being the perfect ending for this book, which talks about the lives of ordinary Indians, most of them immigrants in America or England. No matter how banal...
Stories that break your heart a little. My favorite was the first story, I wish there was a whole novel on it. But everything works together so well. My second favorite is the last story. I would recommend it as a very pleasurable read. I enjoyed the style of writing and the pace of the stories.
Most of the short stories are characterized by recurring themes of Indians trying to cope with an alien way of life in America and the subtle identity crisis triggered in one by a life away from one's homeland. Barring a few vivid descriptions of various cultural idiosyncrasies, there is nothing str...
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