Lahiri’s most ambitious undertaking yet, and it eventually opens out into a moving family story. Their marriage, though, will remain haunted by their memories of Udayan and a terrible secret Gauri keeps to herself. After his violent death (which happens fairly early in the novel), his devoted, dutiful brother, Subhash, marries his pregnant widow, Gauri, and brings her to America in hopes of giving her a new start in a new country. Udayan, an idealistic student in Calcutta in the 1960s, is drawn into Mao-inspired revolutionary politics. The premise of her new novel, “The Lowland,” in contrast, is startlingly operatic. Jhumpa Lahiri first made her name with quiet, meticulously observed stories about Indian immigrants trying to adjust to new lives in the United States, stories that had the hushed intimacy of chamber music.
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