Review: Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag
Vivek Shanbagh’s terrific new novel Sakina’s Kiss (translated into English from Kannada by Srinath Perur) is an intimate portrait of a middle-class, middle-aged man bewildered and isolated by the changes of modern life, which he painstakingly built for himself and his family over the years. The unknowable lives of ordinary people. (Tim Graham/Getty Images) Slowly, over four days, Venkat reveals — more like confesses to — his life’s story: his aspirations, accomplishments, self-consciousness, and shame. Wrap up…