![]() ![]() The book adeptly weaves between time, place, and narrator, steadily laying out a full-bodied story that gives attention and care to all of the novel's various characters (not just Udayan and Subhash). The boys' paths take them in different directions, with Subhash heading off to America to pursue his studies, while Udayan stays behind in Calcutta, secretly participating in a Communist uprising that has some pretty terrible consequences. ![]() Lahiri's novel centers on a pair of brothers - the restrained Subhash and his more idealistic baby brother Udayan - who grow up side by side in '60s-era India. There's no secret as to why Lahiri's book has been so lauded - it's just good. ![]() To wit, the book was on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize, a finalist the National Book Award for Fiction, and on the shortlist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Since first hitting shelves back in 2013, Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowlandhas racked up the (extremely well-deserved) accolades. ![]()
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