Lahiri's forte is her lovable characters." (2014 : 29) Lahiri is a painstaking writer whose quality is reflected in her labored prose that tries to create a balance between the internal and the external aspects between the landscape and the mindscape….
Suman Bala points out: " Lahiri's fiction reminds one of the Victorian styles of character portrayal through scenes and situations, persons and places. The most conspicuous trait of Jhumpa Lahiri's writing is her remarkable insight with which she proves deep into the psychological depths of her characters and reveals their inner world from multiple angles. She deals with a variety of themes which include physical and emotional displacement, assimilation, isolation or alienation, rootlessness, linguistic hurdles and barriers failed relationships, marital problems and difficulties and even misunderstandings. Lahiri in her works portrays the lives of Indians in exile, of people navigating between ethnic culture and tradition they have inherited and a baffling new world they must face every day without any bias. It was in part due to her parents' keen powers of observation and following Indian customs and traditions scrupulously and persistence to raise their children as Indians.
Lahiri has acknowledged in interviews that her fiction is largely based on her own memories, personal anecdotes and life experiences. All her works deal with the cultural identities and nostalgia for the characters for homeland and the problems they encounter while living in America.
Jhumpa Lahiri has become in the last decade one of the most outstanding and evocative voices in the American literary Panorama.
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