Interpreter of Maladies
by Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618101365
- ISBN 13
- 9780618101368
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($23.00), rubbed at the edges, a small stain at the bottom edge of the back panel. Quarter black cloth with beige paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, a few stray stains at the edges, clean internally. Lahiri's debut collection of short stories, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Synopsis
Interpreter of Maladies is a 2000 collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World" they now find themselves in.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9337
- Title
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Author
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0618101365
- ISBN 13
- 9780618101368
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Short Stories, Debut, Pulitzer Prize, Indian Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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