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Interpreter of Maladies
by Lahiri, Jhumpa
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- First
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Portland, Oregon
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About This Item
Boston: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jhumpa Lahiri on the title page. [x], 198 pp. A Fine, sharp paperback original with a little age-toning to contents. An excellent copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories.
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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Details
- book dealer
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 140942297
- Title
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Author
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Book condition
- second hand
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Indian-Americans, Desi, Pulitzer Prize, short story collections
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
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About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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