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Interpreter Of Maladies (इंटरप्रिटर ऑफ मॅलडीज्)
साहित्यातला अत्यंत प्रतिष्ठेचा समजला जाणारा 'पुलित्झर’ हा पुरस्कारप्राप्त श्रेष्ठ लेखिका झुंपा लाहिरी यांच्या कथा वाचकांना अक्षरश: झपाटून टाकतात. या कथासंग्रहातही कथा भारावून सोडतात. वेगवेगळ्या परिस्थितीत गुंतलेल्या माणसांच्या अंतर्मनाचा वेध घेणार्‍या कथा सुंदर आहेत. एका जागतिक कीर्तीच्या कथालेखिकेच्या उत्कृष्ट कथा मराठी वाचकांना यामुळे खुल्या झाल्या आहेत. आठ कथांपैकी सेक्सी, खराखुरा दरवान या कथा सुंदर आहेत.
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Roman Stories
In 'The Boundary', one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker's daughter, who nurses a wound from her family's immigrant past. In 'P's Parties', a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend's yearly birthday gathering-until the husband crosses a line. And in 'The Steps', on a public staircase that connects two neighbourhoods and the residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy's capital in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with the tensions of a changing city: visibility and invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home. These are splendid, searching stories, written in Jhumpa Lahiri's adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz.
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In Other Words
In Other Words is at heart a love story - of a writer's passion for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery eluded her. So in 2012, she decided to move to Rome where she began to read, and to write - initially in her journal - solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
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Interpreter Of Maladies
Jumpa Lahiri is the kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person you see and say Read this. She`s a dazzling storyteller with a distinctive voice, an eye for nuance, an ear for Irony. She is one of the finest story writers I`ve read.
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The Namesake
A couple coming to terms with living in a new culture discover their troubles are compounded by their son in this drama from filmmaker Mira Nair. Ashoke (Irfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) are a young couple who are brought together in an arranged marriage and soon leave Calcutta to seek their fortune in America. As the couple becomes accustomed to one another, they learn to deal with the coolness and superficiality of life in New York, even as they revel in the opportunities the city offers them. Before long, Ashima gives birth to a baby boy, and pressed to choose a name, they dub the infant Nikhil, though he soon picks up the nickname Gogol, after Ashoke's favorite author. By the time the child is old enough to attend school, he insists upon being called Gogol at all times, and he displays little interest in his Indian heritage. Several years on, Gogol has decided he wants to be called Nick (and is now played by Kal Penn) and has become a thoroughly Americanized teenager, openly rebelling against his parents, smoking marijuana in his room, and dating Maxine (Jacinda Barrett), a preppy blonde from a wealthy family. Ashoke and Ashima are uncertain about how to deal with their son's attempts to cut himself off from their culture, but Nick begins expressing some uncertainty himself when he meets Moushumi (Zuleikha Robinson), a beautiful girl who also comes from a family of Indian expatriates. The Namesake was adapted from the bestselling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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The Namesake
तसं पाहायला गेलं तर त्याचा सारा जीवनप्रवास अपघातांच्या मालिकेनेच भरलेला. सुरुवात झाली बाबांच्या गाडीला अपघात झाला त्या घटनेपासून... गोगोल हे नावही अपघातानेच त्याला मिळालं त्याच्या पणजीने निवडलेलं नाव त्यांना अखेरपर्यंत समजलं नाही. कलकत्ता ते केंब्रिज ह्या प्रवासात तिचं पत्र कायमचंच गहाळ झालं. ह्या एका अपघाताचे परिणाम गोगोलला अनेक वर्षं भोगायला लागले. नाव देताना आयत्या वेळी बाबांना त्यांचा अपघात, त्यातून ज्याच्या पुस्तकामुळे ते जीवानिशी वाचले त्या गोगोलच्या नावाने त्याचं नाम:करण झालं. त्या विचित्र नावाने त्याला खूप छळलं होतं. मोठा झाल्यावर त्याने ती चूक दुरुस्त केली तरीही 'गोगोल' नावाने त्याचा पिच्छा कधीच सोडला नाही. त्याचा विवाह हा देखील एक अपघातच ... भविष्यात काय घडणार हे कधीच माहीत नसतं. सारं काही अचानक सामोरं येतं. त्यासाठी कोणत्याही प्रकारची तयारी करता येणं शक्य नसतं; परंतु तेच अनुभव गाठीशी बांधून त्यामागील कार्यकारणभाव शोधायला पुढचं सारं आयुष्य पडलेलं असतं आणि मग ध्यानात येतं की कधी घडायलाच नको होत्या अशा वा कोणतंही प्रत्यक्ष कारण दिसत नसताना घडलेल्या घटनांनीच आयुष्य भरलेलं आहे.