![]() There’s a pureness to Lahiri’s writing, an ability to convey a message of humanity through lyrical prose. ![]() There’re no twists and turns in the stories, there is very little suspense and the writing is not layered heavily with symbolism. They’re the outsiders in their personal relationships, the outsiders in a new society, outsiders crumbling under emotional pressure and more often than not, they’re average people who feel like outsiders because of their discontent with their lives. It would probably prove impossible to interpret all the maladies affecting the characters of Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories entitled Interpreter of Maladies, but it seems that most, if not all of the characters in this collection of short stories experience an underlying malady – that of being an outsider. ![]()
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