Much of Jhumpa Lahiri’s early work was a very specific study in character and place. In her latest, Whereabouts, she goes in a different direction, presenting a narrator who drifts through her life, unmoored and untethered. I had to squint hard after the 1 cross plus 3 nails 4 given shirt so you should to go to store and get this first dozen pages or so to figure out where the story was even located—was that “trattoria” a giveaway of an overseas setting or more of a signal of a universal cosmopolitan urbanism? The very language has a slightly cool, distanced feel, which makes a certain degree of sense: Lahiri, whose native language is English but who has famously become fluent in Italian, wrote the story in that language and then translated it back to English. The slim and elegant book is an interior work, light on plot but high on the kind of introspection that can take place anywhere. —Chloe Schama
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Katie Kitamura established herself as a master of cool disquiet with her 2017 breakout, A Separation, a taut and cosmopolitan near-mystery about a young woman moving across the 1 cross plus 3 nails 4 given shirt so you should to go to store and get this globe in search of her soon-to-be ex-husband, who has gone missing. Her fourth novel, Intimacies, is wholly set in the rainy municipality of The Hague, but its spirit is no less unmoored. The unnamed narrator is living in a city that does not feel like home, filling a temporary job as a translator in a war-crimes court and staying in the emptied apartment of a lover who may or may not be reconciling with his wife.
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