Interpreter of Maladies / The Namesake
by:
Jhumpa Lahiri (author)
Jhumpa Lahiri took the literary world by storm when her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. The collection was followed by her best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Namesakea finely wrought, deeply moving family drama. Presenting these works...
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Jhumpa Lahiri took the literary world by storm when her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. The collection was followed by her best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Namesakea finely wrought, deeply moving family drama. Presenting these works together here, this edition displays Lahiri’s enormous talent as a storyteller.
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Format: Hardcover
ASIN: B005HKL43K
Publish date: 2010-11-15
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Book Club,
Read For School,
Adult,
Contemporary,
College,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Modern,
Short Stories,
Short Story Collection
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 ...
I recall one of the stories in this collection, but I can't for the life of me remember where/when I read it.
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.
I've actually already read some of the stories in this collection already, but I should probably read the whole thing at some point.
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