A fantastic collection of short stories from Ms Lahiri, focusing mainly on the lives of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. She brings to surface the mixed emotions of people in uncomfortable situations and new places. Really lovely.
Interpreter of Maladies was recommended to me by one of my friends who kept harping about the book all the time to an extent that every-time I thought about him it was this book that I would see swimming in front of my eyes.Okay, so I was not reluctant about reading it but coming from a person who s...
Writing short stories is not easy. A novel is an easier literary form in a way - it allows you the space for character and plot development and gives you the space to slowly fall in love with it. Short story, on the other hand, is like literary speed dating; it only has so much time to set itself ap...
The short story collection entitled Interpreter of Maladies is a powerful novel featuring characters caught between cultures, families and often identities. Jhumpa Lahiri as the writer and omniscient observer sympathises with the plight of such characters, having felt herself a sense of identity cri...
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