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...debut Pulitzer-winning short story collection “Interpreter of Maladies?? and her novel “The Namesake,” Jhumpa Lahiri conceived of the Indian-American family of the 1970s as the product of India and America. These earlier works portrayed intergenerational conflict between Americanized children and their first generation parents, who, while desirous of the educational opportunities life in America afforded, tended to cling to traditional values. But in “Unaccustomed Earth,” Lahiri complicates these relationships. Using a more expansive format for the eight new stories that comprise...
...pressures to pursue professional careers. Recently, the experiences of Indian immigrants have become a hot topic in literature. Last year Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss” won the Booker Prize, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies?? won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Last month, a film based on Lahiri’s novel “The Namesake”—about a boy raised by Indian parents in America—opened in movie theaters. The authors stressed that there...
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