{"product_id":"interpreter-of-maladies-stories-by-jhumpa-lahiri","title":"Interpreter of Maladies Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri","description":"\u003cp\u003ePulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eA couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates; a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homeland...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJhumpa Lahiri's prose is beautifully measured, subtle and sober, and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid, but this work is rich in observational detail, evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here), and full of emotional pull and reverberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780006551799\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43009831108671,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/8437893482190.jpg?v=1773661185","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/interpreter-of-maladies-stories-by-jhumpa-lahiri","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}