pulitzer_prize_fiction reviuquier The 2000 Pultizer Prize for Poetry was awarded 10 April to Jhumpa Lahiri for her "Interpreter of Maladies", a book of nine short stories. A writer of Indian origin, Ms. Lahiri writes here of the perilous balance that exists between ancient Indian tradition and modern life especially in the context of love and marriage. Whether her characters are in Bombay or Boston, at university or in the world of office cubicles, the burdens of duty and family obligations loom large. In each story, a feeling of foreignness prevails, whether the characters reside in the village they were born in or a new homeland. The need to belong and find a sense of peace hangs beneath the surface of these lives, occasionally rising to become an overwhelming plea from the heart. Imbued with a deep sense of Indian culture, these subtle and passionate stories reveal the inner lives of everyday people caught up in an extraordinary world. 000410 ... reviuquier Correct that: The foregoing blathe is about the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for FICTION, not Poetry. Mea culpa. 000410 ... amy good book..... i lost him when i needed him because of this... there was a bomb in the first short story. thank you lahiri. 000410 what's it to you? who go blather from