All of the glittering words are on view; on page after page the reader's eye is caught by a lambent phrase that subtly calibrates a mood, or a rasping epithet that tears through .
Inevitably too, Morgan is now the lover of the Senator's smoky, lambent wife, as well as bureau chief for an unnamed but very important Northern newspaper not easily confused with .
Life and death dance sweetly in Ramin Bahrani's lambent fable of cross-cultural connection.