Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0006551793
- ISBN 13
- 9780006551799
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About This Item
London: HarperCollins / Flamingo, May 2000. Paperback. Near Fine. Asia Books stamp to first page, otherwise Unmarked. Pages lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 198 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection of short stories unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Contents: 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
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000675
- Title
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Author
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0006551793
- ISBN 13
- 9780006551799
- Publisher
- HarperCollins / Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- May 2000
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, short stories, foreigner, migrants, immigrants, Indian Americans, Bengal, Bengali, India, Indians, Boston, Pulitzer Prize
- Bookseller catalogs
- India; Fiction; Asia; Domestic and Family Fiction;
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