| Title | The lowland
a novel |
|---|---|
| Author | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Publication | Random House India |
| Size | 339p |
| Language | ENG |
| ISBN | |
| Topics |
Indian fiction--Domestic Indian fiction--Historical India--History--1947-today Naxalite Movement Indian fiction--Families Indian fiction--English India--History--Fiction |
| Notes | The Lowland is the second novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, published by Alfred A. Knopf and Random House in 2013. The novel is about two brothers who come of age in the 1950s and 60s in the city of Calcutta. When one of the brothers becomes involved in the Naxalite movement in the late 1960s, their paths divert and one of them goes to the United States and the other one stays behind to take part in the movement. The book is about the consequences of each of their choices. [wikipedia] |