by Jhumpa Lahiri · Fourth Estate · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006551799
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«Interpreter of Maladies» is Jhumpa Lahiri's collection of short stories, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (224 pages, in English).
A collection of short stories exploring the lives of characters of Indian origin caught between inherited traditions and the contemporary Western world, with stories set in Boston and Bengal. Lahiri portrays with irony and delicacy the contradictions of uprootedness, nostalgia, and the difficulty of belonging to two cultures at once.
«Interpreter of Maladies» won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award; it is Jhumpa Lahiri's literary debut.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and book clubs interested in stories about migration, identity, and the Indian diaspora.
Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.
