Leila Morabbi - Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
Seyed Majid Alavi Shooshtari - Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

This paper examines the concept of home in Jhumpa Lahiri s selected short stories in Interpreter of Maladies. Interpreter of Maladies indicates interpreting of emotional pain and affliction. Each story interprets the character s sufferings and struggles. Lahiri mostly narrates the story of Indian immigrants set in the United States and England. This collection encompasses nine stories out of which three are opted: When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine , Mrs. Sen , and The Third and Last Continent . These stories are set in the United States or England where all the migrant characters deal with homesickness and therefore a desire to return back to where they belong. Moreover, the characters are navigatingbetween inherited traditions and baffling and alienating new world; they suffer a loss of homeland and the anguish of return

alienation, belonging, diaspora, home, homesickness