Roman Stories
Melancholy yet electric ... The fluid transitions between Lahiri’s and Portnowitz’s translations elevate Roman Stories from a grouping of individual tales to a deeply moving whole. By putting many kinds of foreignness together, Lahiri shows that they all belong.
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Written with a sort of elegant simplicity that hits deeper than you realize ... The stories stick with you for a long time, so I’d advise readers to savor each one. Intentionally or not, Lahiri has left a lot of room for us to ruminate, reflect, pause, backtrack. The city of her mind is a very comfortable world to inhabit.
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Artfully explore[s] themes of belonging, displacement, acceptance and intolerance ... This is a masterful collection in which Lahiri brilliantly delineates her characters' triumphs and trials.
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