okey, so this needs to be announced to the world. The celebrated physicist Stephan Hawking is also a gangasta rapper and has 3 studio albums to his credit !! The band is known as MCHawking and is not at all proper for kids :P. Okey well it is a hoax but u have to have a look at MCHawking just for the sheer amount of the work that has been put into it and for the fact that I actually believed it at first :(
Finished "Interpreter of Maladies" today. Considering the fact that it has only 9 stories, it should have been a one day affair but I never managed to take out that one day. Instead I read it 1-2 stories a day after every 3-4 days. Now that I finally finished it with a marathon of 4 stories today, I think I enjoyed it much more by reading in parts, taking time to reflect on the stories as I read them.
So the next obvious thing: the best story on the collection. Well I'll rather not chose one best but I liked "Temporary Measure", "Interpreter of Maladies", "Sexy" and "Third and the Last Continent".
A very striking feature of the stories is that they are very rich in details. Unlike Arundhati Roy, whose plush language is a treat to read, or just behold for that matter, Jhumpa is all about details. Specially the details about food !! I could almost taste it in my mouth. And think about my plight when I had to go and eat mess foo...
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