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—），印度裔美國作傢，齣生於倫敦，父母為印度移民，兩歲時隨父母移居美國。

她著有短篇小說集《解說疾病的人》與《不適之地》、長篇小說《同名人》與《低地》，及隨筆集《另行言之》與《書之衣》。

憑藉處女作短篇小說集《疾病解說者》，拉希莉獲得瞭2000年度的普利策文學奬，是曆史上最年輕的得奬者，此書還獲得瞭美國筆會/海明威奬和歐·亨利奬。《同名人》為她第一部長篇小說，於2006年被改編為電影，廣受好評。此外，她還以短篇小說集《不適之地》獲得瞭弗蘭剋·奧康納國際短篇小說奬，長篇小說《低地》獲得瞭DSC南亞文學奬。