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Writing this review almost a year after I finished the collection, I'm embarrassed to say that I remember very little except for the fact that I absolutely loved every single story.
I'll be honest: didn't like Interpreter of Maladies on the first-go. I had read The Namesake first and was spoiled by the experience. When I went to Interpreter I couldn't get through it because it felt like I was being cheated, given the window display when I knew that there was more behind the counter. I had that knowledge because I had read a full-length, in depth display of the author's narrative power. As the old adage goes in programming: the end-user is an idiot and that idiot was me. The...
A collection of short stories which focus on people, relationships and in some cases community. The writing style reminded me of Murakami minus the magical realism.
I can't honestly say enough about this book, Jhumpa Lahiri, or her ability to gently tell stories that don't change your life, but make you feel part of a giant, overwhelming world. Her prose is perfect. Her sentence structure flawless. She is my literary idol and I am anxious for her to write something new. Nothing about her writing will make you stay up past midnight trying to get to the end and it's this very kind pacing that I appreciate most. Her characters are real people who are relatable...
The story "Interpreter of Maladies" is about an Indian tour guide who communicates with a client, a woman who tells a shameful secret from her past.The laconic style and deep psychologism of Jumpa Lahiri depicts the inner world of the characters. The subtle humour of seemingly insignificant events in the life of ordinary people acquire a deep meaning.The story is included in the debut book of Jhumpa Lahiri. This book won the Pulitzer Prize.Here is the link to the text of the story:https://online...
I read just The Interpreter of Maladies... So beautifully written. Reminded me of Olive Kitteridge with its little glimpses of humanity and the funny/sad things that happen everyday. One of those rare books that I wanted to read as slowly as possible so that it would last longer.
I really liked her poetic writing style. It was lovely reading it :)
I read this collection of short stories for the Multicultural Book Club, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library System. I wish I could give it more than five stars; it's in a category by itself. Each story shows how Indian characters tackle issues of cultural identity and communication barriers. There are instances in these stories of exile, estrangement, displacement, and marginality---both emotional and cultural. There are so many layers within each story, with some characters facing the loneliness of
This book fit the genre of Contemporary Classic written by BIPOC. It is a collection of short stories about Indians--some in the US and some in India. Some old, some young, some young but have been through so much that they are old.I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved so many of the stories, and felt like any of them could be random people that I would interact with. My favorite stories were: A Temporary Matter, Interpreter of Maladies, Sexy, and The Treatment of Bibi Haldar. Lahiri's style i...
I loved the pace of these stories, never rushed, always with space to unfold the story. The stories are more beautiful for the pacing.
Beautiful writings: powerful, soulful, original yet known at the same time. Each story speaks of the immigrant experience - hard work and humility, which is beautifully intertwined with basic human experiences of frailties, fears and failures.
I'm giving a perfect rating to a book after quite some time, and this one did indeed touch all the right chords. The stories are utterly human, with the intricacies of relationships beautifully captured from a point of view that is of an impartial fly on the wall. Each story reads better than the other and leaves the reader with a lasting feeling of empathy without overdoing the sentimentality.Lahiri leaves it to us to interpret her interpreters of maladies, not once seeming distant from them.
I really liked the short stories and it's a wonderful collection, excellent reading. As for the namesake, it's a delight to read this novel, story about immigration and clash between two cultures....A son that has an identity crisis"ABCD" American Born Confused Desis. His parents clings to their Ethnic Background and traditions.
This was my first book by Jhumpa Lahiri, and I'm in love with her writing. No need to mention about the beauty of her writing; nothing specifically attracting, yet the prose seem to be in a perfect sync. The stories deal with Indians living abroad. You get to see a spectrum of cultural and social differences among the characters, but what I found most intriguing is the way in which these distinctions get blurred from the perspective of a migrant living abroad. The religious, cultural and social
This is a collection of short stories written from several points of view of Indians and Indian Americans. Although a few of the stories had a hopeful trajectory many reminded me of the Paul Simon song. So any of the people appeared to be "gliding down the highway" but were, in fact, slip slidin' away. Some were memorable. Others I forgot by the time I had read the next story in the book. in general I came away from this book with a mild feeling of sadness.
