Interpreter of Maladies
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Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Interpreter of Maladies Context triple: [Jhumpa Lahiri, notableWork, Interpreter of Maladies]
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a 2017 novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy that weaves together the lives of marginalized characters across contemporary India in a fragmented, poetic narrative.
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The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize–winning debut novel, a nonlinear family saga set in Kerala that explores forbidden love, caste, and political turmoil.
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C.
Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice is a 1982 drama film, based on William Styron's novel, that follows a Holocaust survivor's harrowing past and present in postwar Brooklyn.
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D.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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E.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Interpreter of Maladies Target entity description: Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.
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A.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a 2017 novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy that weaves together the lives of marginalized characters across contemporary India in a fragmented, poetic narrative.
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B.
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize–winning debut novel, a nonlinear family saga set in Kerala that explores forbidden love, caste, and political turmoil.
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C.
Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice is a 1982 drama film, based on William Styron's novel, that follows a Holocaust survivor's harrowing past and present in postwar Brooklyn.
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D.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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E.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
PEN Hemingway Award
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linked to:
PEN/Hemingway Award
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| containsStory |
A Real Durwan
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A Temporary Matter ⓘ
linked to:
Unaccustomed Earth
Interpreter of Maladies ⓘ Mrs. Sen's ⓘ Sexy ⓘ The Third and Final Continent ⓘ The Treatment of Bibi Haldar ⓘ This Blessed House ⓘ When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| debutWorkOf | Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Namesake ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | contemporary South Asian American literature ⓘ |
| hasMainCharactersFrom | Indian diaspora ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
cross-cultural relationships
ⓘ
identity crisis ⓘ loneliness ⓘ |
| includedInList | modern classics of short fiction ⓘ |
| isbn | 9780395927205 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective |
first-person narration
ⓘ
third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ |
| originalPublicationFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| pageCount | 198 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setting |
India
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| style | realism ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Indian immigrants in America
ⓘ
middle-class Bengali families ⓘ |
| theme |
Indian identity
ⓘ
Indian-American identity ⓘ communication and miscommunication ⓘ cultural conflict ⓘ displacement ⓘ immigration ⓘ marriage and relationships ⓘ |
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Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University
When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
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Interpreter of Maladies is Jhumpa Lahiri's debut collection
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When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
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Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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This Blessed House
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