The Lowland

Zusatztext 45290302 Informationen zum Autor Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction:  Interpreter of Maladies !  The Namesake !  Unaccustomed Earth ! and  The Lowland ; and a work of nonfiction!  In Other Words . She has received numerous awards! including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal! awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia! for  In altre parole . Klappentext National Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize 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. Normally she stayed on the balcony, reading, or kept to an adjacent room as her brother and Udayan studied and smoked and drank cups of tea. Manash had befriended him at Calcutta University, where they were both graduate students in the physics department. Much of the time their books on the behaviors of liquids and gases would sit ignored as they talked about the repercussions of Naxalbari, and commented on the day’s events. The discussions strayed to the insurgencies in Indochina and in Latin American countries. In the case of Cuba it wasn’t even a mass movement, Udayan pointed out. Just a small group, attacking the right targets. All over the world students were gaining momentum, standing up to exploitative systems. It was another example of Newton’s second law of motion, he joked. Force equals mass times acceleration. Manash was skeptical. What could they, urban students, claim to know about peasant life? Nothing, Udayan said. We need to learn from them. Through an open doorway she saw him. Tall but slight of build, twenty-three but looking a bit older. His clothing hung on him loosely. He wore kurtas but also European-style shirts, irreverently, the top portion unbuttoned, the bottom untucked, the sleeves rolled back past the elbow. He sat in the room where they listened to the radio. On the bed that served as a sofa where, at night, Gauri slept. His arms were lean, his fingers too long for the small porcelain cups of tea her family served him, which he drained in just a few gulps. His hair was wavy, the brows thick, the eyes languid and dark. His hands seemed an extensio...

Product details

• Authors: Jhumpa Lahiri
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.04.2014
• EAN: 9780804172288
• ISBN: 978-0-8041-7228-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 180 mm x 30 mm
• Series: ALFRED A. KNOPF; Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature