Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

Abstract

Jhumpa lahiri‟s The Lowland is a judicious supplement to her already popular oeuvre of fiction writing, including Pulitzer Prize winner Interpreter of Maladies (1999), The Namesake (2003) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008). The story of novel concerns two siblings, Subhash and Udayan Mitra and due to circumstances in the 1960s, they parted their ways. Subhash moves to United States for higher studies in Oceanography and settles there while his younger brother, Udayan, lives by Marxist ideology. The tumultuous political context in the wake of colonial rule in India marks the personal saga of a family deeper than in any other Lahirian fiction.