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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
This Pulitzer winning collection of short stories is nothing short of beautiful tiny worlds woven within the seams of a barely 200-paged book.
Lahiri has a knack of forming sentences in a way that leaves you feeling exactly what the character feels. You aren't just reading, you become the protagonist, the antagonist, and at times even the innocent bystander perched atop a railing, watching a commotion unfold in one of her stories.
Each story develops a ravenous hunger, and at the very end, Jhumpa leaves so much unanswered, that the continuity of life in the face of whatever-comes, hits you like a brick in the face. Its almost like imagining a smirk on her face, egging you on to think "what would you have done had it been you".
Nothing short of a treat, this book.
Lahiri has a knack of forming sentences in a way that leaves you feeling exactly what the character feels. You aren't just reading, you become the protagonist, the antagonist, and at times even the innocent bystander perched atop a railing, watching a commotion unfold in one of her stories.
Each story develops a ravenous hunger, and at the very end, Jhumpa leaves so much unanswered, that the continuity of life in the face of whatever-comes, hits you like a brick in the face. Its almost like imagining a smirk on her face, egging you on to think "what would you have done had it been you".
Nothing short of a treat, this book.