A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores - The New York Times
Parul Sehgal
And much about its provenance and its passage into English is distinct — it’s the product of a true collaboration between Shanbhag and Perur, a translator whose interest in this kind of work came not from his closeness to the language but his distance.
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