INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - PEN/HEMINGWAY
AWARD WINNER. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning
debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters
seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces
the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their
children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide.
A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions
that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian American girl
recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while
the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. A
latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman
from Calcutta. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American
family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing
confession.
Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak
with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.
Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the
strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.
