The lowland lahiri6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() There are some slow moments, to be sure, especially in the beginning when she has to provide the historical and political background of the Indian Naxalite movement, which in the mid–1960s embroils one of the two brothers central to this tale. 2009, 68)-but here she also sustains a complicated narrative spanning three generations with a deft and yet profound touch. It’s no secret that Lahiri’s prose can be lapidary-she has proven that in the story collections Interpreter of Maladies (see WLT, Spring 2000, 365) and Unaccustomed Earth (see WLT, Jan. ![]() ![]() In this exquisite novel, Jhumpa Lahiri revisits some of her major themes-dislocation, assimilation, family connection, and the difficulties of love-but in this instance she develops her characters and circumstances in greater depth than ever before. ![]()
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