Jhumpa Lahiri names Europa's "Lovers" as the Best Book She's Read This Year
In an interview with the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Jhumpa Lahiri – author of The Namesake, The Interpreter of Maladies, and the forthcoming novel The Lowland – named Daniel Arsand's Lovers as the best book she's read this year so far:
"I read it first in the English translation, then in Italian. It’s a harrowing love story with rich historical context. But it’s free of bulk, of weight, of all the predictable connective narrative tissue. I found it incantatory, transcendent. It inspires me to tell a story in a different way."
Set in the 1700s, Lovers is the story of an affair between a budding doctor and a young nobleman that scandalizes the court of Louis XV. Lahiri has already praised Lovers in the past, calling it a "masterpiece of compression," and we're thrilled to receive another positive mention. Click here to read Lahiri's full interview with the Sunday Book Review and find your copy of Lovers at your local bookstore or online retailer.
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"I read it first in the English translation, then in Italian. It’s a harrowing love story with rich historical context. But it’s free of bulk, of weight, of all the predictable connective narrative tissue. I found it incantatory, transcendent. It inspires me to tell a story in a different way."
Set in the 1700s, Lovers is the story of an affair between a budding doctor and a young nobleman that scandalizes the court of Louis XV. Lahiri has already praised Lovers in the past, calling it a "masterpiece of compression," and we're thrilled to receive another positive mention. Click here to read Lahiri's full interview with the Sunday Book Review and find your copy of Lovers at your local bookstore or online retailer.
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