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Will Jhumpa Lahiri be the Next Booker Prize Winner?
Bangalore: 'The Lowland', a novel by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri, which revolves around the lives of 2 teenagers, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, reports Kounteya Sinha of TNN.
Before coming up with the final list of 13 authors, the judges took 9 months to go through 151 works.
According to Jonny Geller, joint chief executive of literary and talent agency Curtis Brown, "It is one of the few longlists in recent years where I want to read more than a handful. Full of life, vibrancy and different worlds. The absence of some big names is not the point; the inclusion of new ones is what is exciting", as reported by Sinha.
'The Lowland' is ‘’a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death’’.
Lahiri, a Bengali origin, is recognized as the first Asian to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. She was honoured with this achievement for her debut story collection ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ in the year 2000. Her first novel ‘The Namesake’ turned out to be a one of the bestselling novels and was also named the ‘New York Magazine Book of the Year’. She discusses the lives of Indian Americans, specifically Bengalis, in most of her fictions.