The Lowland

Resumen del libro

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 and the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight.

So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass - as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India - their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. 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, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him: his newly married, pregnant wife, his brother and their parents.

For all of them, the repercussions of his actions will reverberate across continents and seep through the generations that follow. Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are. With all the hallmarks of Jhumpa Lahiri's achingly poignant, exquisitely empathetic story-telling, this is her most devastating work of fiction to date.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Jhumpa Lahirix{0026}lt;/B , nacida en Reino Unido, de padres bengalíes, pasó su infancia y juventud en Estados Unidos. Es autora de dos libros de relatos aclamados por la crítica y que obtuvieron un enorme éxito de ventas: x{0026}lt;I El intérprete del dolorx{0026}lt;/I (1999), que le valió el Premio Pulitzer, el O. Henry Award y el PEN/Hemingway Award, y x{0026}lt;I Tierra desacostumbradax{0026}lt;/I (2008), que fue elegido Mejor Libro del Año 2008 por x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I y recibió los premios Frank O. Connor, AsianAmerican Literary Award y el Gregor von Rezzori. También ha publicado novelas como x{0026}lt;I El buen nombrex{0026}lt;/I (2003), x{0026}lt;I La hondonadax{0026}lt;/I (2013) y x{0026}lt;I Donde me encuentrox{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2018), el libro de artículos en x{0026}lt;I En otras palabrasx{0026}lt;/I (2015) y el poemario x{0026}lt;I El cuaderno de Nerinax{0026}lt;/I , de próxima aparición en Lumen. En 2012 ingresó en la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras, en 2015 recibió la Medalla Nacional de Humanidades, así como una beca Guggenheim y, en 2017, recibió el PEN/Malamud Award. Ha traducidoal inglés las novelas x{0026}lt;I Atadurasx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Scherzettox{0026}lt;/I , de Domenico Starnone. Con x{0026}lt;I Cuentos romanosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2023), Jhumpa Lahiri regresa al género que le dio fama en todo el mundo.x{0026}lt;/P