![]() ![]() Jhumpa Lahiri beautifully captured the Bengali women, their physical attributes, and the changes that living in America bring about in them, also the juxtaposed picture of American women with that of the Indian Bengali women. The majority of her stories describe first-generation Indian immigrants who had difficulties settling in America and adjusting to western lifestyles. The freshness in Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories in ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ was in the essence of capturing the lives and emotions of the first-generation Indian migrants to America. Her next book was ‘The Namesake’ and its immense popularity led to a movie adaptation as well. ![]() In 2000, Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Award and Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri is a collection of nine short stories published in 1999. ![]()
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