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Interpreter of Maladies

Name: Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List.

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”

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“A woman who had fallen out of love with her life”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Interpreter of Maladies

Source: Interpreter of Maladies

“She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.”

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“Sexy means loving someone you do not know.”

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Source: Interpreter of Maladies