Delightful book of short stories by an Indian who was born in London and lives in NYC. She includes stories showing the struggles of India and its peoples at the end of colonialism. The most interesting stories concerning the recent immigrants to this country and the struggles to understand our cu...
I have read so many books about Indian subcontinent that I feel I know the culture better than my own. It seems to be very 'in' these days. Reminds me of latin-american literary boom of the 60's (not that I was actually around to remember it first hand).Short stories are tricky things. There is no r...
Lahiri's first publication received almost too much success, but in reading this collection one can see what all the excitement is about. Lahiri examines the gulf for Indian/Bengali immigrants struggling to understand their new country (the U.S.), maintain a relationship with their place of birth or...
Larhiri's short stories take place either in the Boston area or in India. Most of them are melancholy. I liked them, but they didn't blow me away, just made me a little sad. The narrator seemed unfamiliar with the pronunciation of place names like Filene's and Mapparium. No problem with Nickelod...
I feel kind of bad giving this collection 2 stars but it really was "just OK."Lahiri's not a bad writer but I just never connected with any of her stories in any way.That said, if the last story were the only one, I'd have given it 3 stars for the character of Mrs. Croft; and there are interesting p...
An Interpreter of Maladies is not, as Mrs. Das thinks (and as the reader of Jhumpa Lahiri's stories may initially be thinking, too), a medical doctor or a psychologist; someone who interprets the origin and meaning of his patients' various illnesses and malaises and then prescribes the adequate trea...
Short stories about the Indian community, both in India and expats in the US. Some non-Indian characters and Americanised Indians give an outsiders perspective to balance the more insular stories, but the general themes of love, sex, betrayal, struggle, ostracism etc are universal.
Amy Tan says on the back cover that once you finish reading this book you feel like going around telling people to read it. I was still reading it and already i was asking one of my colleagues if he wanted it when I was finished.Brilliant.
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