![]() ![]() ![]() Lahiri’s work deals primarily with the Indian-American immigrant experience, considering the bi-cultural worlds and identities that Indian-American immigrants inhabit and navigate. She also asserts that Lahiris 'pro-tagonists-all Indians-settled abroad are afflicted with a sense of exile' (par. Her 2013 novel, The Lowland, was a finalist for the National Book Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. hiris Interpreter of Maladies,' Asha Choubey traces her theme through five of the nine stories, analyzing their representation of Indian food and the use of food as metaphors for home and the connection between people. Books that followed include the 2003 novel The Namesake, and The New York Times-bestselling collection of short stories Unaccustomed Earth, published in 2008. in Renaissance Studies at Boston University, Lahiri took the literary world by storm in 1999, when her first book of short stories, The Interpreter of Maladies (of which “The Interpreter of Maladies” is the title story), was published, going on to win the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2000. 'Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri. After completing graduate studies, including a Ph.D. English Composition I (ENGL 1301) 1301 Readings and Documentaries. As a child Lahiri often returned to Calcutta, India to visit relatives. Though born in London, Jhumpa Lahiri moved with her Bengali-Indian family to America when she was still an infant and settled in Rhode Island. ![]()
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