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“Interpreter of Maladies” Jhumpa Lahiri (1999) Review | misunderstanding and disconnection



Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999
Read in 2018
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽

✔ A collection of short stories from a Pulitzer award winner
✔ Stories of disconnection and disappointments
✔ Depiction of Indian-ness and her origin as not understandable

★★★★☆ A collection of short stories that makes you simply sad. It gets you excited a bit, then in the end you face the cold reality, that you are merely insignificant being.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

A collection of short stories that makes you simply sad.

The author herself is of Indian origin so protagonists are Indian or Indian origin, if not someone looking at Indian.
She depicts these Indian characters as some kind of aliens, someone we cannot understand.

The stories get you excited a bit, then in the end you face the cold reality, that you are merely insignificant being.

It won Pulitzer and other awards so I'd love to read this in English.
 
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Interpreter Of Maladies: A Novel