We first meet them as youngsters in the late 1950s, sneaking over the wall of a posh golf club built along a sewer canal in the largely Muslim town of Tollygunge.
Though different in temperament, Udayan and Subhash appear to be mirror images of each other and frequently answer to each other’s name. And now her somber new novel, “The Lowland,” arrives in the United States already shortlisted for Britain’s Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award, an extraordinary double boost it hardly needs to find an eager audience here in her adopted country.Īmong other things, this multigenerational story is about “the intimacy of siblings.” The novel begins with a pair of brothers, 15 months apart, in Calcutta, a city Lahiri knows from visits to her relatives. Her first novel, “The Namesake,” was made into a film directed by Mira Nair. Her first collection, “Interpreter of Maladies,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, when she was only 33. Jhumpa Lahiri’s exquisite stories about Indians and Indian Americans have been appearing in the New Yorker since the late 1990s, steadily building one of the most powerful bodies of work about immigrants and their children.
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