The Namesake is Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. In addition to the Pulitzer, it received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

It was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a bestseller both in the United States and abroad. Her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in English literature, and of Boston University, where she received an M.A. She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she received a B.A. Jhumpa Lahiri was born 1967 in London, England, and raised in Rhode Island. 'India is an inescapable presence in this strong first collection's nine polished and resonant tales, most of which have appeared in The New Yorker and other publications.' Kirkus Reviews Synopsis 'torytelling of surpassing kindness and skill.' The San Francisco Chronicle Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies will reward readers.' USA Today 'Dazzling writing, an easy-to-carry paperback format and a budget-respecting price tag of $12: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies possesses these three qualities, making it my book of choice this summer every time someone asks for a recommendation.Simply put, Lahiri displays a remarkable maturity and ability to imagine other lives.ach story offers something special. 'Lahiri's touch is delicate yet assured, leaving no room for flubbed notes or forced epiphanies.' The Los Angeles Times 'Lahiri's touch in these nine tales is delicate, but her observations remain damningly accurate, and her bittersweet stories are unhampered by nostalgia.' Publishers Weekly She is a writer of uncommon elegance and poise, and with 'Interpreter of Maldies' she has made a precocious debut.' The New York Times Lahiri chronicles her characters' lives with both objectivity and compassion while charting the emotional temperature of their lives with tactile precision. 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. ' announces herself as a wonderfully distinctive new voice.

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