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Between the lines: what do White Lotus characters’ book choices tell us?
Season three offers up clues to characters’ psyches – or perhaps their fates – by showing us their holiday reads
The winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1920 is described by the London Review Bookshop as “a disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction”, leaving many questioning if it mirrors Lochlan’s own deepening identity crisis. Photograph: Fabio Lovino/HBOIn the new series, Chelsea (played by Aimee Lou Wood) is seen leafing through a book of poems by Rumi – the 13th-century Persian poet whose works explore love and spiritual reflection – as she lounges by the pool of a luxury hotel in Thailand’s Ko Samui. ); the TV star Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) has brought along Barbra Streisand’s 992-page memoir to read by the pool; and perhaps, most revealingly, the newly outed Trump-voter Kate (Leslie Bibb) just scrolls on her phone.
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