The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

NATIONAL BESTSELLER *  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary novel, set in India and America, that tells the story of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.

Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up.  But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan--charismatic and impulsive--finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother's political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America.

But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family's home, he goes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind--including those seared in the heart of his brother's wife.

Masterly suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers.

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in the United Kingdom to Bengali parents and spent her childhood and adolescence in the United States. She is the author of four narrative books: El buen nombre, El intérprete del dolor, Tierra desacostumbrada, and La hondonada, the last three of which were published by Salamandra. In other words, this is his first non-fiction work. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Frank O#Connor Award. In 2012, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2015, he was awarded the National Medal of Humanities.

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ISBN 13	9780307278265
ISBN 10	0307278263
Title	The Lowland
Author	Jhumpa Lahiri
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2014-06-17
Number of pages	432
Prizes	Short-listed for National Book Award Finalist 2013
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