Interpreter of maladies : stories

Summary: Stories about Indians in India and America. The story, 'A Temporary Matter, ' is on mixed marriage, 'Mrs. Sen's' is on the adaptation of an immigrant to the U.S., and in the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors.

Item details

ISBN: 9780395927205
ISBN: 039592720X
ISBN: 9780618101368
ISBN: 0618101365
Physical Description: print
198 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [1999]
Copyright: ©1999

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"A Mariner original / Mariner Books."
Formatted Contents Note:	A temporary matter -- When Mr. Pirzada came to dine -- Interpreter of maladies -- A real durwan -- Sexy -- Mrs. Sen's -- This blessed house -- The treatment of Bibi Haldar -- The third and final continent.
Awards Note:	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. PEN/Hemingway award winner.

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East Indian Americans Fiction
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