Interpreter of Maladies

<p><strong>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER. </strong></p><p><strong>With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.</strong></p><p>With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants expatriates and their children arrive quite literally at a cultural divide. </p><p>A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. A latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman from Calcutta. In the title story an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.</p><p>Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture these stories speak with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.</p>