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Interpreter of maladies stories

Lahiri, Jhumpa. (Author).

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (198 p.)
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Mariner original."
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Summary, etc.: 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.
Awards Note:
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2000.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: East Indian Americans Fiction
Nouvelles anglophones Inde
Nouvelles indiennes (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise États-Unis Vingtième siècle
Écrits d'immigrés
Américains d'origine indienne (de l'Inde) Conditions sociales
Genre: Short stories.
Electronic books.


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