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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 15 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.
Long-listed for the 2013 Man Booker Prize
- Sales Rank: #12254 in Audible
- Published on: 2013-09-24
- Released on: 2013-09-24
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 784 minutes
Most helpful customer reviews
174 of 184 people found the following review helpful.
A Sketchy Multi-Generational Portrait
By Jill I. Shtulman
First let me say that Jhumpa Lahiri is my goddess of literature. I read a lot - maybe 75 books a year - and I have rarely fallen under the spell of a book the way I did with Interpreter of Maladies. Her follow-up collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, was also an unqualified 5-star success.
So I was dying to get my hands on her new novel, The Lowland. I read through it eagerly but I closed the last page with mixed feelings.
Let's start with the good: Ms. Lahiri is a natural-born storyteller. In this book, she introduces two brothers, close in age who are poles apart - Udayan, the revolutionary brother who gets caught up in the Mao-inspired Naxalite movement to wipe out poverty in India and his more reserved and dutiful brother, Subhash, who leaves home to pursue an academic and scientific life in Rhode Island. When Udayan inevitably gets swept into a revolutionary movement that turns out badly, Subhash returns home -briefly - and picks up the pieces, including an attempt to heal the emotional scars of his brother's young wife.
As the plot goes on - and it is not my desire to encapsulate the plot or to create spoilers - about 70 years of family history is condensed into a mere 340 pages. Themes play out and then they play out again: the connections that make and break us, the intertwining to people we cannot truly see or know, the way we are defined by the place we call "home", the quiet differences we make in the world. It's all wound up in the history of India and indeed, Ms. Lahiri is at her very finest when she's describing Indian customs or lifestyles as only an insider can.
There's some lovely craftsmanship here, not bells and whistles, but quiet and contemplative -- even shimmering - moments. The problem is, I never found it to be very compelling. Because of all the years and generations (four of them) that Ms. Lahiri has to cover, she can only provide sketches of her characters. And they never truly come alive.
Yes, Udayan is the fiery revolutionary...but what made him so and why was he willing to sacrifice so much (the headiness of youth and a sense of fairness should only be the beginning). His wife, Guari, who eventually bonds with Subhash, was an enigma to be throughout. She is a distanced character, and her actions begin to feel somewhat predictable; the reader is never treated to her resonance and depth. And Bela, her daughter, is only revealed in limited emotional scope.
A novel, unlike a short story, demands a considerable emotional tension, a multi-textured richness that makes characters leap off the page. I never really sensed the two-dimensionality, possibly because the story line was multi-generational and ambitious. The litmus test of whether or not you will love this book is this: if you loved Namesake, this is definitely a book for you, since stylistically, there are similarities. If you are, instead, a fan of her short stories, you may or may not be engaged. Judge for yourself.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Intellectually but not emotionally compelling
By Avid Reader
There is no doubt that Jhumpa Lahiri is a talented writer, but The Lowland is one of the most depressing books I have read in a long time. Considering the underlying passion that motivated the life altering decisions of the main characters, this book was oddly devoid of passion. The reader does not get caught up in fervor of Udayan's social activism, the highs and lows of the marital relationships, and the depth of the parent - child bonds. Instead you view all of these moments at arm's length, only feeling the sadness, isolation and futility of all of (with the possible exception of Bela) their lives. The Lowland is not a book that will have you tearing up as you experience joy and sorrow through well drawn characters in turmoil. Rather, it is more of an intellectual exercise that will give you plenty to think about when you are done, but will not touch you in your heart.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Shame on the author for writing and publisher to take it further
By Amazon Customer
I have read many books by Indian Authors and the movement from India to America. I understand the characters and stories around coming to a new culture.
This book represents to me the worst that capitalism brings to the world today. A greedy publisher and a very non-caring writer, cashing on their past laurels. Jhumpa Lahiri should have given serious thought on what exactly was the purpose of writing the book. I don't think serious thought was given. The publisher should have looked at the book and reviewed it on its own merit.
The book is a collection of characters who are supposedly connected to each other as family. Just like the book itself, there is no purpose to any of their lives. The book keeps jumping from character to character and locations aimlessly. You are constantly reminding yourself that an author of her level, is taking you somewhere, the story has a purpose, the book has a message and that the ending will lead you somewhere. Eventually it leads you nowhere.
At the end of the book, you feel, you read something about some characters whose lives had no purpose. The characters did not feel connected to each other in anyway. Their actions did not reflect that they were influenced by their past.
I have rarely written such a negative review but I do not see myself buying another book by this author. I feel she took away time from my life, took me down a journey which lead nowhere. I think she needs to reflect on how many books she can write on an Indian moving to America, living in a small town. She needs to reflect, is there more to her creativity than these themes.
She needs to reflect wether she want to encash on her name all her life or actually explore her creativity.
At the end, neither do I recommend this book, nor this author anymore.
Shame on the Publisher to focus on the greed of selling books than reviewing the book on its merit.
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