Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies

£55

Illustrated By Shreya Gupta

Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, is gorgeously illustrated for the first time by Shreya Gupta, exclusively for the Folio Society.

Interpreter of Maladies

£55
Book Details
 
Presentation Box & BindingQuarter-bound in blocked cloth with printed textured paper sides
Blocked slipcase
Dimensions8¾ inches x 5½ inches
FontSet in Warnock with Owbeirak Serif as display
Pages232 pages
AuthorJhumpa Lahiri
Illustrated ByShreya Gupta
IllustrationFrontispiece and 6 full-page colour illustrations
Publication Date09/05/2023
Editor's Notes
 
An immensely talented multilingual wordsmith, writing in Bengali, English and Italian, Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut short story collection blazed across the literary world upon publication, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen award and the New Yorker Prize for Best First Book. Folio illustrates her multifaceted collection for the first time. Over nine stories, Lahiri deftly explores the tension between tradition and modernity, old and new worlds. The title story, ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ hints at the maladies and misunderstandings that can arise from those tensions. Lahiri’s vividly drawn characters span generations and distances across the Bengali diaspora. We view partition from a distanced child’s perspective in ‘When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine’. In ‘The Blessed House’, we meet Tanima or ’Twinkle‘, who delights in collecting kitsch Christian figurines, embarrassing her husband. This new edition, illustrated by Shreya Gupta in bold, vibrant colours and patterns, includes the 2019 preface by Italian journalist and writer Domenico Starnone.

About The Illustrator

Shreya Gupta

Shreya Gupta is a New York-based artist who is originally from India. She has illustrated an anniversary edition of Little Women, and a picture book, She Sang for India, as well as creating a Google Doodle of India’s first practicing woman doctor. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, Penguin Random House India and Viking Books, among other publishers. Gupta has an MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and works as a book cover designer for Grand Central Publishing.

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About The Illustrator

Shreya Gupta

Shreya Gupta is a New York-based artist who is originally from India. She has illustrated an anniversary edition of Little Women, and a picture book, She Sang for India, as well as creating a Google Doodle of India’s first practicing woman doctor. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, Penguin Random House India and Viking Books, among other publishers. Gupta has an MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and works as a book cover designer for Grand Central Publishing.

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About The Illustrator

Shreya Gupta

Shreya Gupta is a New York-based artist who is originally from India. She has illustrated an anniversary edition of Little Women, and a picture book, She Sang for India, as well as creating a Google Doodle of India’s first practicing woman doctor. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, Penguin Random House India and Viking Books, among other publishers. Gupta has an MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and works as a book cover designer for Grand Central Publishing.

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About The Illustrator

Shreya Gupta

Shreya Gupta is a New York-based artist who is originally from India. She has illustrated an anniversary edition of Little Women, and a picture book, She Sang for India, as well as creating a Google Doodle of India’s first practicing woman doctor. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, Penguin Random House India and Viking Books, among other publishers. Gupta has an MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and works as a book cover designer for Grand Central Publishing.

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About The Illustrator

Shreya Gupta

Shreya Gupta is a New York-based artist who is originally from India. She has illustrated an anniversary edition of Little Women, and a picture book, She Sang for India, as well as creating a Google Doodle of India’s first practicing woman doctor. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, Penguin Random House India and Viking Books, among other publishers. Gupta has an MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and works as a book cover designer for Grand Central Publishing.

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About The Illustrator

Shreya Gupta

Shreya Gupta is a New York-based artist who is originally from India. She has illustrated an anniversary edition of Little Women, and a picture book, She Sang for India, as well as creating a Google Doodle of India’s first practicing woman doctor. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, Penguin Random House India and Viking Books, among other publishers. Gupta has an MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and works as a book cover designer for Grand Central Publishing.

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About the Author

Born in London to Indian parents in 1967, Jhumpa Lahiri moved to America as a child. In 2000 she became the youngest winner of a Pulitzer Prize for her first short story collection Interpreter of Maladies (1999; Folio Society 2023). The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, her novels include The Namesake and The Lowland. Having lived in Rome for some years, Lahiri has returned to America to teach creative writing at Princeton University. She writes in Italian and has recently published a translation of her first Italian novel, Dove mi trovo, as Whereabouts. Lahiri wrote the introductory essay for the Folio limited edition of The Divine Comedy (2021).