![]() This semblance of a breeze is what makes the painted nature tremble…” She’s also keenly self-aware: “Solitude: It’s become my trade… And yet it plagues me, it weighs on me in spite of my knowing it so well. Books by Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 4.69 - 26.01 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 3.99 - 23.19 Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri 4. She has a writer’s eye for detail, capturing a garden painted onto the walls of a museum: “The trees, with their thin branches, seem to bend as if from the soft breeze that courses through the landscape. ![]() Written in Italian and then translated by the author into English, “Whereabouts” features an anonymous first-person narrator who reveals tiny slices of her life in the course of 46 very short chapters with names like “At the Station” and “On My Couch” and “In My Head.” Readers will be challenged to piece together a plot, but we do learn that she’s a single professor somewhere in Italy, her father died when she was just a teen, and by the end she’s pondering a change of scenery from the place in which she is so thoroughly immersed throughout the book.īeyond that, there’s not much action in the story, which focuses instead on observations of everyday life, both in the various spaces the narrator inhabits and her inner monologue. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiris new novel is all about small, intimate moments playing out in public places. Readers can debate in book clubs whether it’s a novel in the traditional sense, but it sure is novel in the original sense. ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri is back with what is sure to be one of the more unique “novels” of the year, “Whereabouts.” ![]()
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