BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Criticism/Essays Biographies Biographies My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Interpreter of Maladies"

 


Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Print-Friendly
About 109 pages (32,536 words) in 4 products

"Interpreter of Maladies" Search Results
Contents:
Summaries and Analysis


Author Biography

Name: Jhumpa Lahiri
Birth Date: 1967
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: Novelist, Short story writer

summary from source:
Biography of Jhumpa Lahiri
1835 words, approx. 6.1 pages
Jhumpa Lahiri writes fiction about the Indian immigrant experience in America. She surprised the literary world in 2001 when she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her very first full-length effort, a collection of short stories titled Interpreter of...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Interpreter of Maladies Information
181 words, approx. 1 pages
Interpreter of Maladies is a 2000 collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year. The...


News and Journals
summary from source:

Herizons
[Interpreter of maladies]
07/01/2001: 575 words, approx. 2 pages
[Graph Not Transcribed ] JHUMPA LAHIRI HOUGHTON MIFFLIN REVIEW BY IRENE D'SOUZA Every once in a while there appears a new work of fiction with the power to remind us why we read in the first place. With this,...
summary from source:

The Nation
The interpreters of Maladies.(Obituary)
12/13/2004: 4,040 words, approx. 14 pages
When Marx wrote, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it," he was not only taking a swipe at philosophers. He was slighting interpretation itself, as if thinking were an idle affair compared to...
summary from source:

The New York Observer
Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams: We Hate Ratnerville!
5/8/2006: 1,951 words, approx. 7 pages
Lights! Camera! Activism! A coterie of Brooklyn celebrities has aligned itself against Bruce Ratner's plan for a Nets stadium and surrounding development in Prospect Heights. The group includes Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss, Peter Galassi,...
summary from source:

The New York Observer
India Inc.
3/18/2007: 2,618 words, approx. 9 pages
In 2000, the Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with The Interpreter of Maladies, making her the first South Asian—and, at 33, among the youngest of any ethnicity—to be named in that category. She appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, wearing crimson,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Featured Essays
summary from source:


Essay Grade: 88%
Interpreter of Maladies
1,489 words, approx. 5 pages
An analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, a collection of stories that trace the unique journey of families from India who establish themselves in America. The book conveys the emotional roller coaster these people experience from coming to America and being labeled as foreigners. It also shows how these people gain true satisfaction from their experiencing Indian culture in America, rather than from assimilating to the American culture.


Interpreter of Maladies Study Pack

Get the complete Interpreter of Maladies Study Pack, which includes everything on this page. Approximately 109 pages (at 300 words per page) in 4 products. (Download a sample literature guide)

 Please Note: Study Pack does not include any HighBeam content.

This Study Pack Contains:
Complete Literature Study Guide
1 Biography
1 Encyclopedia Article
1 Student Essay
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Print-Friendly
About 109 pages (32,536 words) in 4 products




Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy