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en-wikipedia-org-6360		Interpreter of Maladies - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5388	443	76	Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. Mr. Pirzada is a botany professor from Dhaka and is living in New England for the year after receiving a research grant from the Pakistani Government; he has left behind his wife and seven daughters, who he has not contacted in months. Katrak reads Interpreter of Maladies as reflecting the trauma of self-transformation through immigration, which can result in a series of broken identities that form "multiple anchorages." Lahiri's stories show the diasporic struggle to keep hold of culture as characters create new lives in foreign cultures. Williams notes the ability of food in literature to function autobiographically, and in fact, Interpreter of Maladies indeed reflects Lahiri's own family experiences. "Reading Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" as a Short Story Cycle".	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6360.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6360.txt