Srinivas's 100 books by Indian Authors challenge

[Nivas]

hii fellow readers, this is Srinivas. I want to read 100 books must written by Indian authors (NRI indian authors also). its a challenge,though know a though to complete, so for myself its more like a "must do thing" before end of this year.
Interesting part of this challenge is that i am going to buy all these 100 books and already started to save money for that.

[Nivas]

starting this challenge with this Pulitzer Prize winning book, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. heard a lot about author and about her wrtings. So decide to read this book of short story's collection.

[Prashant]

Go for it Srinivas!
I have read this one and it's great !
All the Best!

[Nivas]

Prashant wrote: "Go for it Srinivas!
I have read this one and it's great !
All the Best!"

thanks Prashant
i am just reading ur review.

[Prashant]

I copied that review from a note I wrote about the book. And it's been like 3 years, so you may not find anything interesting.
But the book is very good and I hope you will enjoy it :)

[Ahtims]

its a nice one, I liked 'unaccustomed earth" too (by the same author)

[Anbu]

All the best Srinivas.. I haven't read much of Indian Authors.. But I would suggest RK Narayan.. :)

[Prashant]

Two recommendations, both by the same author

The Valley of Masks
The story of my assassins

[dely]

Good luck for your challenge!

[Nivas]

Anbu wrote: "All the best Srinivas.. I haven't read much of Indian Authors.. But I would suggest RK Narayan.. :)"

i am going to buy his books first, then sit and read in the mornings when The sun began to rise up in the sky.

[Nivas]

dely wrote: "Good luck for your challenge!"

thanks Dely

[Nivas]

Prashant wrote: "Two recommendations, both by the same author

The Valley of Masks
The story of my assassins"

Surely i will check it, Prashant

[Muddle head]

Prashant wrote: "Two recommendations, both by the same author

The Valley of Masks
The story of my assassins"

Thanks for the recos prashant, interesting works, shall try to read one of them. And all the best Srinivas

[Nivas]

1. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri



Rating: 4.5

Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the cultures of East, which are genetic and West, which are of the "New World."


It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List.


Each of nine stories is equal gem which is equally extracted, purified and polished, which have enough radiancy, through the words of author. Each story has its own level of loss, hope, tensions, struggle to adjust in new cultures, struggle to understand and struggle to maintain relationships.


I want to give a brief anecdote of each story. Here it is:

1.A TEMPORARY MATTER – Darkness brought Light into the lives of a couple who mentally switched of their Light towards each other.

2.WHEN MR. PIRZADA CAME TO DINE – War fetched them close and Peace separated them miles apart.

3.INTERPRETER OF MALADIES – Interpreter is needed even in life not only to interpret, but to understand us, also.

4.A REAL DURWAN – Times are changing, so people, that means relations with others and a single incident can cripple us.

5.SEXY – a Word brought an end to their relationship, in which she embraced herself and to which, she adored.

6.MRS. SEN’S – its, sometimes, hard to leave the longingness towards the physical things as they entangled with us in our small pleasures.

7.THI S BLESSED HOUSE – is accepting one’s eccentricities is a grudging act of compliance in a marriage?

8.THE TREATMENT OF BIBI HALDAR – having raped cured her disease, not the one implicated by her body but the one by her own people.

9.THE THIRD AND FINAL CONTINENT – it isn’t that much hard to adjust ourselves in new cultures, if we can just stop struggling against the new one than rather trying to understand it.


As I am a South Indian and am living in Kolkata past 22 years, I feel more like Bengali in someways and I, fascinatingly, like Bengali foods - Kachori, Porata, Rasagolla, Misti Dhoi, Bengali people, Durga Puja, Girls wearing colorful saris, Bengali weddings, ceremonies, festivals, cultures and lot more. This book is more accurately able to portray, and the authors' words are successful in narrating, the minute details of situations of Bengals surrounding daily lives, which I like mostly and enjoyed muchly while reading.


I started to read this book as a challenge of reading 100 books by Indian authors; I think I made an excellent choice of beginning to complete this challenge.



PS: i haven't written any reviews before this much long and my English is not so good(more accurately not enough good). So please feel free to correct and comment.

[Ahtims]

Glad that you enjoyed the book, Srinivas. Jhumpa Lahiri is one of my favorite authors - her writing is so refreshing. As regards to our English, we should be proud of the fact that we do so well inspite of English not being our primary language.

[Kelly]

Good luck Sirinivas. I am looking forward to following your challenge and seeing the books you choose.
You're first book choice looks popular, I must try that author.:0)