Interpreter of Maladies (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2000)

Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant stories tell the lives of Indians in exile, of people navigating between the strict traditions they've inherited and the baffling New World they must encounter everyday. Whether set in Boston or Bengal, these sublimely understand stories, spiced with humour and subtle detail, speak with eloquence to anyone who has ever felt the yearnings of exile or the emotional confusion of the outsider.