Book Review The Lowland Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher: Random House India, 2013 Pages: 340 Price: Rs499 [Hardbound] There are two brothers. They differ in age by just over a year and resemble each other physically. But psychologically they are poles apart. One becomes a Naxalite and the other goes to the USA where he completes his higher studies and settles down. The Naxalite is eventually killed and his brother marries the widowed young wife who is pregnant. She gives birth to a daughter in America and soon deserts the family. She goes to a faraway place and works as a professor of philosophy and writes books, cutting herself off totally from her second husband as well as her daughter. The daughter grows up and inherits some of her biological father’s revolutionary spirit. She gives birth to a fatherless child and lives with her adoptive father doing odd jobs related to conservati...
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