Interpreter of Maladies (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: New England and India
- Principal Characters: Shoba, Shukumar, Lilia, Mr. Pirzada, Mr. Kapasi, Mrs. Das, Miranda, Devajit (“Dev”) Mitra, Sanjeev, Twinkle
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Marriage, New England, Adultery, India or East Indian people, 1990’s
- Locales: New England, India
The fact that Jhumpa Lahiri was hailed as “one of the twenty best young writers in America today” in The New Yorker’s 1999 “Future of American Fiction” issue but was neither included nor even mentioned in the highly touted collections published by Granta, Penguin, or The New Yorker just two years earlier to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Indian independence demonstrates the speed with which the Indian literary scene is expanding. Although benefiting from the enormous interest in Indian writing generated by the publication of Salman...
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