Interpreter of Maladies
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| Interpreter of Maladies | |
 Cover of paperback edition |
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| Author | Jhumpa Lahiri |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Short stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 160 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-618-10136-5 |
Interpreter of Maladies is a 2000 collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year.
The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World" they now find themselves in.
[edit] The stories
- A Temporary Matter
- When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
- Interpreter of Maladies
- A Real Durwan
- Sexy
- Mrs. Sen's
- This Blessed House
- The Treatment of Bibi Haldar
- The Third and Final Continent
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| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by The Hours by Michael Cunningham |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2000 |
Succeeded by The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon |
