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Written by Jhumpa Lahiri - Narrated by Matilda Novak - Unabridged Fiction - COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audio (January 2005)

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Pen/Hemingway Award Winner

New Yorker Debut of the Year

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the charters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.

About the Author:Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant. She is an important and powerful new voice. Jhumpa Lahiri is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, and The New Yorker's best Debut of the Year Award

"[Lahiri] announces herself as a wonderfully distinctive new voice. Indeed, Ms. Lahiri's prose is so eloquent and assured that the reader easily forgets the Interpreter of Maladies is a young writer's first book...Ms. Lahiri chronicles her characters' lives with both objectivity and compassion while charting the emotional temperature of their lives with tactile precision. She is a writer of uncommon elegance and poise, and with Interpreter of Maladies she has made a precocious debut." --The New York Times