JHUMPA LAHIRI IS, according to Amy Tan, “the
kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person you
see and say, ‘Read this!’” Lahiri’s debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, was an international
bestseller that won a host of awards, including the Pulitzer
Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award,
The New Yorker’s Debut of the Year, and the Addison Metcalf
Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Michiko Kakutani wrote in
The New York Times that “Ms. Lahiri’s prose is so eloquent
and assured that the reader easily forgets that
Interpreter of Maladies is a young writer’s first book.” Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lahiri
comes to Houston on a limited national tour to read from her
new book, The Namesake (in bookstores, 9/03). The novel—a multigenerational story of a South
Asian family making its way in the U.S. over a period of three
decades—further explores Interpreter’s
themes of immigrant assimilation.
Thanks
to Asia Society-Texas for its assistance.
