Pankaj Mishra's "Run and Hide"
b"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 nonfiction. The book explores the lives of the literary translator Arun \\u2014 our narrator \\u2014 two of his friends from college, and Alia, a woman with whom he has an impactful romance, as they all grapple with the moral and emotional scars of economic globalization. Their story, as Run and Hide frequently points out, is also the story of modern India, a country in which rapid changes to centuries-old inequities bear both great boons and great costs.\\nAlso, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19, returns to recommend Celia Paul's Letters to Gwen John."