Pirzada Came to Dine." In "The Blessed House," we meet Tanima or ’Twinkle‘, who delights in collecting kitsch Christian figurines, embarrassing her husband. We view partition from a distanced child’s perspective in "When Mr. Lahiri’s vividly drawn characters span generations and distances across the Bengali diaspora. The title story, "Interpreter of Maladies" hints at the maladies and misunderstandings that can arise from those tensions. Over nine stories, Lahiri deftly explores the tension between tradition and modernity, old and new worlds. Folio illustrates her multifaceted collection for the first time. " Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri An immensely talented multilingual wordsmith, writing in Bengali, English and Italian, Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut short story collection blazed across the literary world upon publication, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen award and the New Yorker Prize for Best First Book.
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