The Lowland
An international bestseller and finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award, The Lowland is a powerful novel from Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri. Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution: set in both India and America The Lowland explores the price of idealism, and a love that can last long past death.
Growing up in Calcutta, born just 15 months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead of them. It is the 1960s, and Udayan—charismatic and impulsive—finds himself drawn to the Naxalite…