Jhumpa Lahiri | Author | Illustrator | Books

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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, England in 1967. She is the daughter of parents who emigrated from India . She was then raised in Rhode Island where her father worked as a librarian and her mother as a teacher. Her debut work, Interpreter of Maladies, won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. Her second publication, The Namesake , was her first novel and spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In addition to receiving the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, she has also received a PEN/Hemmingway Award, an O. Henry Award, The New Yorker’s best debut of the year award, and an Addison Metcalf award from the American academy of arts and letters. She currently lives in New York City, where she is working on a novel.

New - Unaccustomed Earth By Jhumpa Lahiri
US $3.70
End Date: Monday Mar-15-2010 9:06:37 PDT

Jhumpa Lahiri came to lime light in 2000 by winning Pulitzer Prize for her debut work Interpreter Of Maladies (1999). The nine distinct short storries in this collection addresses sensitive dilemmas in the minds of indians or Indian immigrants. The stories are set in northeastern united States and in Calcutta. The title story shows the vast gulf in the mindset of an Indian and an Indian expatriate.The longing for the lost land is prominent in Mrs.Sen’s , A temporary Matter, and Sexy.The idea of exile runs continuously through these short stories. Her next work India Holy Song (2000) failed to attain the due attention it deserved.

Interpreter Of Maladies, Good Books
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End Date: Wednesday Mar-17-2010 9:56:45 PDT

The stories of Jhumpa Lahiri’s first book whisper and scream traces of India through the details of the characters who become fictional testaments to the complex and conflicted world of Indian immigrants in the United States. The title for the book came to Lahiri years before she actually began to formulate it when she ran into a friend who acted as a Russian liaison in a Boston doctor’s office. She says that the phrase “Interpreter of Maladies”, was the closest (she has) ever come to poetry. Her characters often exist simultaneously in two cultures: the American reality and the sphere of Indian tradition.