Pankaj Mishra joins Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to talk about his new novel Run and Hide, which takes up many of the themes explored in his political non-fiction. Narrated by Arun, a literary translator, the book explores the lives of Arun, two of his friends from college, and Alia—a woman with whom he has an impactful romance—as they grapple with the moral and emotional scars they carry in the midst of an era-defining wave of economic globalization. Their story, as Run and Hide frequently points out, is also the story of modern India, a country in which the rapid changes upending centuries old inequities bear boons and costs with which all four characters must grapple.
Also, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19, returns to recommend Celia Paul's Letters to Gwen John.
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