Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, the Indian American author, strikes again with a new novel, The Lowland. This Washington Post review features her ability in "steadily building one of the most powerful body of work on immigrants and their children", an important aspect of her writings.

"Her first collection, “Interpreter of Maladies,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, when she was only 33. Her first novel, “The Namesake,” was made into a film directed by Mira Nair. 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. Her first collection, “Interpreter of Maladies,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, when she was only 33. Her first novel, “The Namesake,” was made into a film directed by Mira Nair. 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."

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