

She exploits the universal yearning for something greater and, through her characters, creates. 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. Author Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of short stories about misconception. Her 2013 novel, The Lowland, was a finalist for the National Book Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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. Jhumpa Lahiri took the literary world by storm when her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (full audiobook) Jordan Barclay 5.6K subscribers Subscribe 52K views 3 years ago Here is my audiobook of Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. After completing graduate studies, including a Ph.D.

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.
