INTERPRETER OF MALADIES

The story is about how Das family go to India for holidays. Their guide was Mr. Kapasi . Also Mr. and Mrs. Das had 3 children and they together moved through big forest where were a lot of monkeys. Along the way all chat with guide, especially the young wife, and she is fascinated by his regular job as “an interpreter of maladies.” That is, he works for a doctor and translater for some patients who speak an Indian language which the doctor doesn’t know. But Mr. Kapasi thought bad about this family. He thought it was not  a family, because they were very young. But later he  change his mind. In order to experience more time in her company, he suggests a second trip to a lesser known site. The woman especially wants this. When they arrive she stays in the car with the driver to chat. His is nearly overcome. However, he is soon shocked to discover she wants to share with him a terrible secret and to get his help.  Then she told about her hard life. One of her child was hurt by monkeys and they decided to go to hotel again. Mrs. Das lost a paper and only Mr.Kapasi noticed it.

WHEN MR. PIRZADA CAME TO DINE

This story is about time of civil war in Pakistan and and the consequences of this.The narrator is Lilia, she and her family lived in city. Lilia aslo attended school.Mr. Pirzada, has been sent to the U.S. by the Pakistani government to study New England trees.She didn't remember when Mr. Pirzada came to their house at the first.He lives in the dorm , but takes his evening meals at their house. This is not only for the food, but their family, like Mr. Pirzada, listen each evening to the international news and the central story is generally the coming of war to East Pakistan.Pirzada has 7 daughters, all of whom have a first name beginning with “A.” He can never remember who is who. He is witty, warm and fun, but terribly worried by the coming war and worried, of course, about his family. Soon they become good friends and after some time he does go back home and writes a letter back telling them the situation and of his reunion with his family. And they never saw each other.

A TEMPORARY MATTER

This story is about a young couple , where wife is a proof-reader and the husband is still a grad student. They have a nice home and life was full of hope and dreams. However, their first child was born dead and a terrible pall has come over the relationship. While they had been close and loving, caring and thoughtful, they have drifted apart, not even eating their meals together. A notice comes from the power company that some electrical lines in their neighborhood must be repaired and for a number of nights the electricity will be cut off at 8 PM each evening, but this is just a “temporary matter.” They are forced to rearrange their evenings, and their evening meal will have to be by candlelight. Then each of them “reveals” something to the other each evening. This seemingly brings them close together again, and signs are that they are getting very close to coming back to the loving ways they had before. At the last night Shuba said her husband ,  that she find an apartment for herself, and he understood that she is going to leave him. After that Shukumar told her about their baby. And that serious moment was the end.