Abstract: Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winner was born on July 11,1967 in London the daughter of Bengali Indian immigrant is an American author. Interpreter of Maladies (1999) is Lahiri's debut short story collection. The Namesake (2003), was adopted into the popular film of the same name . In her recent Unaccustomed Earth (2008) she moves on to a scrutiny of the fate of the second and third generation. The Lowland is the latest novel.
Lahiri's book Interpreter of Maladies collected nine stories. The all stories address sensitive dilemmas in the lives of Indian immigrants with themes such as marital difficulties, miscarriages and the disconnections between first and the second generation United States immigrants.
Keywords: Jhumpa Lahiri, recent Unaccustomed Earth, marital difficulties, miscarriages and the disconnections.
Title: Review of Literature Jhumpa Lahiri
Author: Gulab Dhar
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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