Roman Stories

“Vivid. . . . [Roman Stories] crackles with indignation as it explores the meaning of home and the cost of exile. . . . Sentences gleam and flow, adding to the vividness and immediacy of these tales. . . . Urgent and affecting.” —The Guardian “Affecting. . . . Lahiri’s return to short stories . . . is also a return to fiction that powerfully conveys her characters’ valiant efforts to navigate geographic and cultural relocations and find their place in the world.” —NPR “Melancholy yet eccentric. . . . Each story is muted and elegant, laid back in style but not emotion. . . . The fluid transitions . . . elevate Roman Stories from a grouping of individual tales to a deeply moving whole.”­ —The New York Times“[Lahiri’s] style is exquisite: intimate and detached at the same time, with carefully chosen words that weave a feel of deceptive simplicity. . . . [These stories] are impeccable as pieces of creative writing.” —The Hindu“Beautifully concise, observed with tender affection. . . . Lahiri conjures up [her characters’] private worlds, hopes, dreams, and heartbreaks with clinical precision.” —MintLounge“A work of deep contemplation. . . . Every time I think I have read the best that Lahiri has to offer, she reinvents herself and writes something even more extraordinary, more sublime.” —Scroll.in “Filled with intelligence and sorrow, these sharply drawn glimpses of Roman lives create an impressively unified effect. . . . [Roman Stories] is a brilliant return to the short story form by an author of protean accomplishments.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“A dazzling collection. . . . Lahiri’s luminous prose captures a side of Rome often ignored.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)