Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
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Interpreter of Maladies

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrator: Matilda Novak

Unabridged: 6 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/13/2005

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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 cultures 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.

About Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Interpreter of Maladies. Her books include The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, The Lowland, and, In Other Words, an exploration of language and identity.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Joyce on 2007-09-14 23:47:25

Elegant and thrilling at the same time. You must listen to these stories...

Goodreads review by Jim on May 22, 2021

How’s this for blurbs: when the female author published this collection of short stories at age 32 in 1999, she won the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen/Hemingway Award and the New Yorker’s Debut Book of the Year. Like the author’s other collection of shorts that I have reviewed (Unaccustomed Earth, 2008) th......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on October 14, 2024

You know a book's good when someone asks you for a synopsis, or snippet, or impression, and all you can do is smile there, enveloped in some subtle magic that only you know about, & kinda forget what it, the book, was all about altogether. This happened with "Interpreter of Maladies", a perfectly-ti......more

Goodreads review by Federico on September 10, 2023

Utter Sadness, minus one. A collection of short stories by renowned Jhumpa Lahiri. Eight incredibly sad and nostalgic stories, with morsels of indian american culture. In a certain way this reminded me of Gabriel García Márquez, with that tragic mysticism that he used to imprint every single one o......more

Goodreads review by Always on February 27, 2020

I usually don't enjoy short stories that much. Collections of short stories tend to have stories that are really strong mixed together with ones that aren't and this was no exception. I do think the foreward for the kindle edition that I had contributed a lot to my enjoyment of the stories. It reall......more

Goodreads review by emma on January 24, 2023

i love an unpopular opinion, but... i have to admit this just is as good as everyone says it is. that's the review. --------------------- tbr review actually reading books i was assigned in school but never picked up in order to achieve genius status......more