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BOOK REVIEW: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri  Source :  Sri Lankan Group of Radio 4EB is pleased to present its Newsletter “Dæhæna” for August 2022. The migrant experience is at the heart of all Jhumpa Lahiri stories where the reader follows the journey of immigrants as they establish themselves in a foreign place. In Pulitzer Prize winner Lahiri’s second novel The Lowland, the movement is not simply through space but also through time. The Lowland is a story of two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, growing up in postpartition Calcutta. A mere 15 months apart in age, Subhash has no memory of life without Udayan. Inseparable, they find joy in fixing radios, listening to football matches, learning Morse Code, and looking out for each other as they get up to mischief, though Subhash often feels controlled by his younger brother. When they leave home for university, their ideologies are challenged: Udayan’s ...