Melancholy of arrival

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Melancholy the Arrival is a collection of nine short stories and the debut of the American author Jhumpa Lahiri . The stories deal with the lives of Indians and Indo-Americans trapped between their inherited culture and the new world. The work was published in 1999 by Houghton Mifflin .

The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award in 2000. The book has been translated into 29 languages; it was translated into German by Barbara Heller .

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize was a big surprise: for Lahiri as well as for the literary world. Her book was hardly known. She herself claims that she did not know that she was a candidate. In addition, it is mostly novels and not short stories that win the Pulitzer Prize.

The stories

  1. "A Temporary Matter" (dt. A temporary thing )
  2. "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" ( When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dinner )
  3. "Interpreter of Maladies" ( interpreter of minor ailments )
  4. "A Real Durwan" ( A real Durwan )
  5. "Sexy"
  6. "Mrs. Sen's" ( At Mrs. Sen's )
  7. "This Blessed House" ( A Blessed House )
  8. "The Treatment of Bibi Haldar" ( Bibi Haldar's Therapy )
  9. "The Third and Final Continent" ( The third and final Continent )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " http://www.literaturpreisgewinner.de/belletristik-international/pulitzerpreis "
  2. ^ Carol Kort, "A to Z of American Women Writers published by" Facts on File ", pp. 169-171.
  3. ^ Carol Kort, "A to Z of American Women Writers published by" Facts on File ", pp. 169-171