Nilanjana Sudeshna “Jhumpa” Lahiri (born 1967) is a Bengali American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.

Her debut collection of short-stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. …

Lahiri was born in London, the daughter of Indian immigrants from the Indian state of West Bengal. Her family moved to the United States when she was three …

The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between their roots and the “New World”.

Good, not great is my review.

Of course I’m not much of a fan of short stories.