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...
So yeah, this book won awards? Really? Umm.. Why?It’s not like it’s the worst book I’ve ever read, no, definitely not, but I don’t get what was so special about it either? It’s like a soap opera with no ending. No wait, since it has Indian characters, I guess it’s a Bollywood movie? Then again, I’ve...
"It was as if Udayan were there, speaking to him, teasing him. He felt their loyalty to one another, their affection, stretched halfway across the world. Stretched perhaps to the breaking point by all that now stood between them, but at the same time refusing to break." You don't have to be in a cer...
Although the author writes in a clear and direct style, making it an easy read, although she captured the flavor of the culture, customs, lifestyle and form of expression used by the characters from a small village in India, she failed to capture me. I struggled with the book. It took the better par...
Although the author writes in a clear and direct style, making it an easy read, although she captured the flavor of the culture, customs, lifestyle and form of expression used by the characters from a small village in India, she failed to capture me. I struggled with the book. It took the better par...
bookshelves: booker-longlist, autumn-2013, published-2013, india, north-americas, fradio, next, radio-4 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from November 08 to 23, 2013 BABT! Huzzah!BBC BLURB: ndira Varma reads Jhumpa Lahiri's Man Booker-listed new novel, The Lowland, spanning India and Ame...
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