In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family.
In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers.įrom the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories-longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written-that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.
Masterly suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. 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.īut when Subhash learns what 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. It is the 1960s, and Udayan-charismatic and impulsive-finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. An extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: the best-selling author of The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth.īorn just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. A fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past.
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