May 19, 2021
On her own: Lahiri’s protagonist is characterised by her intense solitude, a flâneur in her city and in the head - ISTOCK.COM
On her own: Lahiri’s protagonist is characterised by her intense solitude, a flâneur in her city and in the head - ISTOCK.COM×
The novel, originally written in Italian, reads like a narrator’s despatches to the self, pithy meditations that probe both being and belonging The new novel is crucial to Lahiri’s oeuvre; as a writer of literary fiction, it marks a wholehearted departure from what defined Jhumpa Lahiri, the English author