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Interpreter of Maladies

Auteur(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrateur(s): Matilda Novak
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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2000

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. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

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.

©2000 Jhumpa Lahiri (P)2000 HighBridge Company Anthologies et nouvelles Fantastique Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Nouvelle Short Stories Indian Literature

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"Moving and authoritative pictures of culture shock and displaced identity." (Kirkus Reviews)
"The crystalline writing in the nine stories of this Pulitzer Prize-winning debut collection dazzles. These sensitive explorations of the lives of Indian immigrants and expatriates touch on universal themes, making them at once specific and broad in their appeal. Narrator Matilda Novak's light voice is fine for stories written by a young woman, and the hint of melody in her reading is typical of Indian voices." (AudioFile)
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Love the stories but wish the pronunciation in some of the narration were better. It kept interfering with the flow and connection to the story.

Love the Stories

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The stories are wonderful but the narration is so off. Forget about doing an authentic accent, she doesn't even pronounce words properly. Totally ruined the experience.

Narrator ruins it for me

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The short stories ended quite abruptly, and after investing time listening to all the detail and build-up of the plot, I found it confusing to be dropped in what felt like an untimely ending each time. I think a good story teller should transport the reader to a satisfying close so that one feels they've had a full and complete experience with each story...but worse than this was the narration. It was so off the mark with the accents. I have no idea what accent the narrator was doing but it was not Indian and therefore, was extremely distracting from the dialogue in the stories. She also put western accents for some of the Indian characters while raising her voice, which not only seemed to misrepresent the characters, but made them sound so loud and unpleasant.

Abrupt endings and poor narration

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