Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond

Nine stories move between Bengal and Boston, following couples, families and visitors whose lives turn on small misunderstandings. Jhumpa Lahiri's debut collection, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, works in a restrained register: marriages under quiet strain, arrivals in unfamiliar cities, and the distance that opens between generations. Each story stands alone, and the prose favours precise observation over dramatic incident, which makes the collection easy to read in short sittings and hard to forget afterwards. For the short-fiction shelf: • Debut collection awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Stories set across India and the United States • Restrained prose focused on domestic observation • Individual pieces well suited to classroom discussion For readers of literary short fiction, for students of diaspora writing, and for book clubs looking for material with plenty to discuss, offered by Boipoka.