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Jhumpa Lahiri has the uncanny ability to introduce the reader immediately to what the story is all about and still have you reading breathlessly wondering what's going to happen. How will the characters solve the predicament they're in? What more will the author surprise me with? In one of the stories from the Interpreter of Maladies, A Temporary Matter, Lahiri takes the reader into all the rooms of a well kept home in which the heart stopped beating after the stillbirth of a first baby. The woman and the man each have been in mourning for six months, moving further and further away from each other, when City Light announces an hour of darkness each night for a week. During this hour the couple tells each other secrets they've never shared before. Lahiri's answer to Sherazade's 1000 nights perhaps, she has both woman and man do the talking. Each getting equal opportunity to save their marriage and their own sanity. The darkness, shared meals and intimacy brings them closer together again after the loss had driven them apart. The main characters may be of East Indian decent, the story is universal, about love, loss, grief and recovery, painted in the vibrant colors of the author's cultural heritage.
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dutchessabroad, April 24, 2008
Jhumpa Lahiri has the uncanny ability to introduce the reader immediately to what the story is all about and still have you reading breathlessly wondering what's going to happen. How will the characters solve the predicament they're in? What more will the author surprise me with? In one of the stories from the Interpreter of Maladies, A Temporary Matter, Lahiri takes the reader into all the rooms of a well kept home in which the heart stopped beating after the stillbirth of a first baby. The woman and the man each have been in mourning for six months, moving further and further away from each other, when City Light announces an hour of darkness each night for a week. During this hour the couple tells each other secrets they've never shared before. Lahiri's answer to Sherazade's 1000 nights perhaps, she has both woman and man do the talking. Each getting equal opportunity to save their marriage and their own sanity. The darkness, shared meals and intimacy brings them closer together again after the loss had driven them apart. The main characters may be of East Indian decent, the story is universal, about love, loss, grief and recovery, painted in the vibrant colors of the author's cultural heritage.Terms and Conditions
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