從美國到印度旅行的印裔家庭，找了一位會說英語的印度人當導遊。旅途中，印裔太太卻告訴導遊一個不為人知、深藏內心八年的秘密....。
一篇篇尋找世間真愛的故事，從印度到新英格蘭，再度回歸到印度，忠實的記錄書中人物跨越了國籍、世代的限制，尋愛的過程，是一場印度文化感官之旅，也同時訴說每個旅居他鄉旅客的心境；拉希莉遊走在嚴肅的傳統與不可思議的新世界之間，純熟的小說技巧、故事鋪陳，醞釀出一篇篇精彩作品。書中同名的一篇小說《醫生的翻譯員》，同時也獲得歐亨利獎(O.Henry Adward)、最佳美國短篇小說獎(The Best American Short Stories)，2000年普立茲獎和紐約客小說新人獎、海明威獎等。
Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates; a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homeland...Jhumpa Lahiri’s prose is beautifully measured, subtle and sober, and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid, but this work is rich in observational detail, evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here), and full of emotional pull and reverberation.
