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Also by Jhumpa Lahiri:

Translating Myself and Others, May 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Whereabouts, April 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
The Lowland, January 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Unaccustomed Earth, April 2008
Hardcover
The Namesake, September 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
Interpreter of Maladies, June 1999
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INTERPRETER OF MALADIES
By: Jhumpa Lahiri

"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
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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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This American Life - April 22, 2006