Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland release date announced
Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri’s stunning new novel, The Lowland is set to release on the 24th September 2013. The Indian Sub-continent version is going to be released with a different jacket design and has been termed in the official announcement as “striking”.
This is Lahiri’s first full-length novel since the award-winning The Namesake, which was also made into a beautiful film by director Mira Nair. Set in both India and America, The Lowland is a beautifully written and imaginative new story of fate and will, exile and return, of the price of idealism and of a love that can last long past death.
Read the official synopsis
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Born just fifteen months apart, brothers Subhash and Udayan are inseparable and are often mistaken for each other in the Calcutta neighbourhood where they grow up. But they are opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan—charismatic and impulsive—finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement; 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 has 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.
Thanks to Lipi Mehta for the heads-up.
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