Format:
Ebook, Electronic Resources, Book
Title:
The lowland [electronic resource].
Author:
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Call Number:
eBook
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Books on Tape, 2013.
Summary:
Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times best-selling author gives us a powerful new novel--set in both India and America--that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death.Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead of them. 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. 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. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in...
Subjects:
Fiction.
Literature.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Other Author:
Malhotra, Sunil.
ISBN:
9780385367431 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)