Interpreter of Maladies / The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri took the literary world by storm when her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. The collection was followed by her best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Namesake—a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama. Presenting these works together here, this edition displays Lahiri’s enormous talent as a storyteller.
Publication Year: 2010
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Lovely prose by Ms. Lahiri. She had me connect with the characters, even the ones I really wanted to hate.
I had a problem with The Namesake, I just don't know exactly what it was. Perhaps it was the nonexistent plot or the fact that the story was more bitter than sweet. It could be that I felt the narration bloated with unnecessary details at times.
While I really enjoyed reading it and loved that I could connect to the descriptions of India, I didn't love it. I wanted to though.
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