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"Here is a writer with a steady, penetrating gaze. Jhumpa Lahiri honors the vastness and variousness of the world while preserving, with crystalline prose, the electric moments of lives lived in secrecy." Frederick Busch
Mariner Books
June 1999
160 pages ISBN: 039592720X Trade Size
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Fiction Poetry
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited
and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa
Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the
barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary
Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young
Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn
birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly
blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an
American family through the India of their ancestors and
hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft
cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced
depth that recalls Mavis Gallant. She is an important and
powerful new voice.
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