![]() One must understand what that does not mean, however. Her prose has been called plain, and in the sense that her sentences don’t draw attention to themselves, don’t dance and sing and make you reread them for their self-contained poetry, I suppose this is true. One of our greatest living writers of fiction, she uses the full word count of a book in the way many writers craft individual, stunning sentences. Yet she is quietly overwhelming, like a wind you can’t see that knocks you back onto the grass. She is invisible, leaving no smudges, no winks, no flares of self-aggrandizement. Perhaps related, there is no author I know of who draws so little attention to herself as the writer within the text while maintaining such an established personal style. ![]() There is no other fiction author I know of who handles her characters with the grace of Jhumpa Lahiri. ![]()
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