Lahiri — Interpreter of Maladies
Book page: lahiri-interpreter-of-maladies
From: Quotes batch 11
Edition: Houghton Mifflin (1999)
On Identity and the Immigrant Experience
“It was a petrifying condition; a bit like being in a play where you were the only one who didn’t know your lines.” (p. 112)
On Communication
“The job of the interpreter is to find the soul of the word, not just its dictionary definition.” (p. 54)