![]() ![]() In Lahiri's sympathetic tales, the pang of disappointment turns into a sudden hunger to know more. Love's failure, however, but the opportunity that an artful spouse (like an artful writer) can make of failure - the rebirth possible in a relationship when you discover how little of the other person you know. Her debut collection of short stories, ''Interpreter of Maladies,'' features marriages that have been arranged, rushed into, betrayed, invaded and exhausted. Samuel Richardson's latest heir is Jhumpa Lahiri. Perhaps because of this congruence, ill-advised marriages have been one of fiction's most fertile subjects, ever since Squire B. No marriage is as arbitrary and accidental as one between a writer and a reader, set up by a brief infatuation in a bookstore or the enthusiasm of a third party. But after the wedding, how do you stay engaged? BooksĪre easy to start, too, and they pose a similar challenge. ![]() Fate, in the form of friends, relatives or lust, arranges a match.
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