Whereabouts
JHUMPA LAHIRI
(BLOOMSBURY, 176 PP, £14.99)
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“When you change houses you always lose something,” says the mother of the uneasy central character in Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel, Whereabouts. You can’t help feeling that these words could be referring to Lahiri’s surprising new creative endeavour: writing exclusively in Italian and then translating her work into English.