![]() ![]() The novel is her fourth book - all of them weaved around the theme of dislocation of immigrants, cultivating the angst of those pining for the ones who left the late knowledge in life for the ones who left that there are no places to hide in this world, especially from one’s own guilty self. In her latest offering The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri wields the reins of the story with the authority of a champion yo-yo player. Variations of yo-yo tricks include the device rolling on the floor without collapsing, returning to the hand with its revolutions intact, before being hurled again for another routine. Aconsummate player of a yo-yo knows a trick termed a sleeper, where the unspooled yo-yo is almost sedentary in posture as it spins on its axle, before returning to the hand that threw it. ![]()
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