![]() ![]() The story which opens the collection is my favourite, but the title story is also one of a kind. Her women are quirky, and her words weave such vivid mental imagery that the characters stand before your eyes like you've met them somewhere before. Her stories are women centric for sure but more than feminism, I feel the beauty of her writing is in her eye for details her impeccable English with superb vocabulary used to describe the smallest nuances the beautiful thought- provoking or poignant endings to the stories which stir the deepest emotions. So for the first week of #FemmeMarchAtWomaniyat I decided to re-read theses stories that brought her into the literary limelight. ![]() I'd first read her 'Namesake' when I was a teenager and ever since I've remained totally floored by her writing style. This book has received great laurels like the Pulitzer Prize and the Hemingway Award for Fiction. Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of nine short stories by Jhumpa Lahirihi. About the Author: Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri, born Jis an American author of Indian origin who is best known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian. ![]()
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