One of this author's protagonists breaks up with Maxine Ratliff after the death of his father and later marries his childhood friend Moushumi, who cheats on him with Dmitri Desjardins.
One of this author's protagonists breaks up with Maxine Ratliff after the death of his father and later marries his childhood friend Moushumi, who cheats on him with Dmitri Desjardins. Another of this author's characters asks if it is pain or guilt that a woman has spent eight years feeling while on a trip to the Sun Temple at Konarak. The father of another of her characters is saved from a train crash when he is noticed waving pages from "The (*) Overcoat". She wrote a story in which Mrs. Das's carelessness causes Bobby to be swarmed by monkeys, whereupon he is saved by the title character, a part-time tour guide named Mr. Kapasi. For 10 points, name this Bengali-American author of The Namesake and "The Interpreter of Maladies".
One of this author's protagonists breaks up with Maxine Ratliff after the death of his father and later marries his childhood friend Moushumi, who cheats on him with Dmitri Desjardins.
Jhumpa Lahiri [or Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri]