She is an important and powerful new voiceĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:11:20 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA139901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New Delhi Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 11. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant. Jhumpa Lahiri’s prize-winning debut collection explores the lives of Indians in exile of people navigating between the strict traditions they’ve inherited and the baffling New World they must encounter every day. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. 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. 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. Sen's is on the adaptation of an immigrant to the U.S., and in the title story an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors The story, A Temporary Matter, is on mixed marriage, Mrs. Stories about Indians in India and America.

Sen's - This blessed house - The treatment of Bibi Haldar - The third and final continent Pirzada came to dine - Interpreter of maladies - A real durwan - Sexy - Mrs.

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