Monsieur Ka

Lara Vapnyar is the author of three novels and two story collections.&nbsp;Her stories and essays have appeared in&nbsp;The New Yorker,&nbsp;The New York Times,&nbsp;Harper’s,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vogue.&nbsp;Her most recent novel is Still Here.

Lara Vapnyar

Happy Families: Lara Vapnyar on Vesna Goldsworthy’s Adaptation of Tolstoy in “Monsieur Ka”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Lara Vapnyar is the author of three novels and two story collections.&nbsp;Her stories and essays have appeared in&nbsp;The New Yorker,&nbsp;The New York Times,&nbsp;Harper’s,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vogue.&nbsp;Her most recent novel is Still Here.