Interpreter of Maladies

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Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.

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instanceOf short story collection
author Jhumpa Lahiri
awardReceived PEN/Hemingway Award
surface form: PEN Hemingway Award

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
awardYear 2000
containsStory A Real Durwan
Unaccustomed Earth
surface form: A Temporary Matter

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Sexy
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countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception acclaimed
debutWorkOf Jhumpa Lahiri
followedBy The Namesake
genre literary fiction
short stories
hasInfluenceOn contemporary South Asian American literature
hasMainCharactersFrom Indian diaspora
hasSubject cross-cultural relationships
identity crisis
loneliness
includedInList modern classics of short fiction
isbn 9780395927205
language English
literaryPeriod contemporary literature
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person narration
third-person narration
notableWorkOf Jhumpa Lahiri
originalPublicationFormat hardcover
pageCount 198
publicationYear 1999
publisher Houghton Mifflin
setting India
United States of America
surface form: United States
style realism
subjectMatter Indian immigrants in America
middle-class Bengali families
theme Indian identity
Indian-American identity
communication and miscommunication
cultural conflict
displacement
immigration
marriage and relationships

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