Interpreter of Maladies

Navigating between the Indian traditions they´ve inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri´s elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter", published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession