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I wanted to read this when it came out because I enjoyed The Namesake so much.It starts as the story of two brothers who are 15 months apart in age but inseparable in life. They are both dutiful Indian sons, but political ideology starts to separate them in college. Subhash decides to study abroad in America while Udayan becomes a part of the Naxalite movement. When Udayan meets a premature end, Subhash returns home to the lowland where he grew up to help pick up some pieces, including a young w
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Jhumpa Lahiri is one of my favorite authors so I went into this book with high expectations. This one ended up being my least favorite of all of her books. Lahiri is a natural storyteller and her writing is beautiful, but I never found the story compelling. Because of the 50 year time span of the novel and the multiple generations covered, the characters felt only sketched out and not fully developed. I can't recommend Jhumpa Lahiri enough, but I would definitely start with her other novel the N
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Jhumpa Lahiri is an exquisite, incredibly skilled writer. The Lowland is a story with depth told with Lahiri's uniquely ethereal sensibility. High quality literature. The only little thing that irked me slightly was the fact that she doesn't use quotation marks for dialogue.
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