It’s time for Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Breaking the Spine. I can’t even begin to explain how excited I am for…
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Publication Date: September 24, 2013
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Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen 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 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 comes 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.
Suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland expands the range of one of our most dazzling storytellers, seamlessly interweaving the historical and the personal across generations and geographies. This masterly novel of fate and will, exile and return, is a tour de force and an instant classic.
I remember when The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri was one of the books assigned in one of my college classes and I distinctly remember enjoying it way more than the majority of the class. So much so that I devoured that book before classes even began and read it two more times during the semester. Needless to say, I am really looking forward to reading The Lowland. High expectations.
What book are you waiting on?