From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of
The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in
both India and America, that expands the scope and range of
one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale 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.
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