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Interpreter of maladies : stories
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Interpreter of maladies : stories

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Stories about Indians in India and America. The story, A Temporary Matter, is on mixed marriage, Mrs. Sen's is on the adaptation of an immigrant to the U.S., and in the title story an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors.
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Genre/Form: Short stories
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 039592720X 9780395927205 0618101365 9780618101368
OCLC Number: 40331288
Notes: "A Mariner original."
Awards: Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2000.
Description: 198 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: A temporary matter --
When Mr. Pirzada came to dine --
Interpreter of maladies --
A real durwan --
Sexy --
Mrs. Sen's --
This blessed house --
The treatment of Bibi Haldar --
The third and final continent.
Responsibility: Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Stories about Indians in India and America. The story, A Temporary Matter, is on mixed marriage, Mrs. Sen's is on the adaptation of an immigrant to the U.S., and in the title story an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors.

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