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 the lowland outside their family's home, he comes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind--including those seared in the heart of his brother's wife.
Suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland expands the range of one of our most dazzling storytellers, seamlessly interweaving the historical and the personal across generations and geographies. This masterly novel of fate and will, exile and return, is a tour de force and an instant classic.
裘帕·拉希莉(1967—),印度裔美国作家,出生于伦敦,父母为印度移民,两岁时随父母移居美国。
她著有短篇小说集《解说疾病的人》与《不适之地》、长篇小说《同名人》与《低地》,及随笔集《另行言之》与《书之衣》。
凭借处女作短篇小说集《疾病解说者》,拉希莉获得了2000年度的普利策文学奖,是历史上最年轻的得奖者,此书还获得了美国笔会/海明威奖和欧·亨利奖。《同名人》为她第一部长篇小说,于2006年被改编为电影,广受好评。此外,她还以短篇小说集《不适之地》获得了弗兰克·奥康纳国际短篇小说奖,长篇小说《低地》获得了DSC南亚文学奖。
Without a doubt Jhumpa Lahiri is one of my all-time favorite writers. There is something about her story telling that is totally addicting, constantly compelling me to yearn for more. Her craft—infused with precise dictions, clever sentences, elegant expos...
评分 评分来源:澎湃新闻 2019-10-29 11:33 ;澎湃新闻记者 王诤 10月27日下午,由浙江文艺出版社“KEY-可以文化”主办的“漂泊与困境:裘帕·拉希莉笔下的异乡人 ——普利策奖得主新书《同名人》《低地》分享会” 在北京三联韬奋书店三里屯分店举行,知名青年作家、鲁迅文学奖得主石一...
评分低地,是指在加尔各答中产阶级聚居区,一对平凡的兄弟俩苏巴什和乌达安家门口有两个椭圆形的池塘,而挨着池塘旁的就是几英亩大的一块低地。 雨季过后,池塘里的池水就会上涨,低地被淹后积满的水有三四英尺深。 他们一同长大,他们曾在那块低地边嬉戏,那里甚至是乌达安革命暴...
评分青春是美好的,青春是理想的,青春也是要付出代价的,许多的代价,不单要自己的付出,也要将家人、朋友,要用一生的时间来偿还这青春的债务,甚至要用生命的代价。 《低地》就是讲述的这样的故事。在印度的孟加拉邦,兄弟两个两小无猜,但随着青春的到来,选择了不同的人生道路...
不喜欢儿女情长
评分书中很多不怎么让人感兴趣的描写,伴有对于人物的平铺直叙。作者似乎是用一种冷静的笔调,从不同人物角度完整了整个故事。而这种冷静的笔调所带给我的,却是一种冰凉的冷漠感,这种冷漠,让我觉得作者都没有用心去研究每一个人物,而这使得那些人物本身,也没有用心参演整个故事。
评分太沉重了,太感动了,太喜欢了…
评分开头部分非常精彩,俱乐部的高墙隔绝出两个世界,外面是肮脏的积水、贫穷的难民、革命和暴力,围墙里面是高尔夫球场、漂亮的餐厅和休息室、奇花异草奇珍异兽,阶级和人种的区隔就是这样简单粗暴。一部写镶嵌在历史动乱中的家族史,总是令人期待的,或像《百年孤独》那样荒诞,或像《丰乳肥臀》那样奇幻,但这本书给我感觉,太干净了,太安静了,和广袤的背景联系太弱,除了把一个主人公钉死在某历史事件上,其他人仿佛都从历史中解放了出来,他们的生活寡淡如水,他们面目模糊性格苍白,无论在加尔各答的还是罗德岛的。或许是因为作者2岁就移民伦敦,家乡留给她的,只是一个模糊的形象,一个由电视和报纸拼读出来的她的,所以她笔下的人物和历史才会那么疏离。
评分It's an emotional journey reading the story in 50s and 60s Calcutta where Naxalite movement takes place. People's decisions are affected and lead to different paths and consequences.The story has a slow build yet the plot really gets me after a while. Jhumpa Lahiri remains the most graceful writer I've ever read, a true master of language.
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