Young people are constantly going through changes - for example, gaining independence, meeting new people, and taking on responsibilities. This deep understanding is one reason I think young adults and teenagers my age are the best audience for this book. Lahiri once noted in an interview that she feels like an outsider, remarking, “The feeling that there was no single place to which I fully belonged bothered me growing up.” Lahiri is able to write such great complex characters because she herself relates to the feeling of belonging to more than one world. She writes about people who don’t feel like they belong with an intimate understanding of the situation she emphasizes their lonesomeness and isolation without passing judgement. Lahiri’s own sense of cultural displacement is evident in her writing as well.
Pirzada is separated from his home and family and Mrs. Her characters have a common feeling of cultural displacement, for example, Mr. Lahiri’s stories are short but pack a punch. In both the content and style of her writing, Lahiri conveys a depth of understanding and empathy when considering the themes of solitude, cultural displacement, and feeling like an outsider. Interpreter of Maladies, written by Lahiri and published in 1999, is a collection of short stories drawing upon the author’s own experience belonging to two cultures. However, Pulitzer prize winning American-Indian author Jhumpa Lahiri achieves the impossible by capturing the moods of silence and lonesomeness, portraying them as necessary and beautiful rather than oppressive. How do you write about silence? This question seems like a paradox surely silence is impossible to capture in good, detailed writing.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a list of her books. At the very least they will entice readers to peruse this book as well as her other equally captivating works.
The following reviews are thoughtful, original, and enlightening. Some chose to review the collection of short stories as a whole and others zeroed in aon a partiular story. Bancroft School students were asked to review Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.
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