NMLP P-014479 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri · Houghton Mifflin (Mariner Books imprint) · 1999

Lahiri's debut. The desirable first is the 1999 Mariner paperback original; there was no simultaneous US hardcover trade first. A hardcover appeared only just after the Pulitzer announcement, so the paperback original precedes it. The UK Flamingo edition follows.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-014479 for "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-014479, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).