The Lowland
by:
Jhumpa Lahiri (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408844557 (1408844559)
Publish date: September 8th 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
India,
Asia
not as good as the namesake
The Lowlands is a story about life and all that it entails; love, loss, hope, despair, loyalty, betrayal – all the big stuff plus the specifics and details, the characters and settings, that make it compelling and authentic. It is also one of the few books so well written the reader feels he is ex...
Jhumpa Lahiri went to my top ten of favorite authors with her previous books so I was very hopeful that I would enjoy "The Lowlands". Not only was I not disappointed in that hope but I think this is her best yet. What a beautiful, heart wrenching novel about two brothers and the different paths ea...
Like so many of us who've experienced loss, the effect is rarely the same, from one person to the next. Granted, the "history" behind the loss has a great bearing on how one deals with their loss. This book examines different types of loss amongst members of the same family. It is also starts ou...
From Goodreads: Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution. A powerful new novel--set in both India and America--that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death.Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen mo...
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