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Interpreter of maladies [electronic resource] : stories / Jhumpa Lahiri.

Lahiri, Jhumpa. (Author).

Summary:

Stories about Indians in India and America. The story, A Temporary Matter, is on mixed marriage, Mrs. 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780547487069 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0547487061 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Mariner original."
Formatted Contents Note:
A temporary matter -- When Mr. Pirzada came to dine -- Interpreter of maladies -- A real durwan -- Sexy -- Mrs. Sen's -- This blessed house -- The treatment of Bibi Haldar -- The third and final continent.
Awards Note:
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2000.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: East Indian Americans > Fiction.
Nouvelles anglophones > Inde.
Nouvelles indiennes (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise > États-Unis > Vingtième siècle.
Écrits d'immigrés.
Américains d'origine indienne (de l'Inde) > Conditions sociales.
Genre: Short stories.
Electronic books.

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