THE LOWLAND; A Novel / Jhumpa Lahiri
by Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067697936X
- ISBN 13
- 9780676979367
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Book, 2013. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED by the Author on a front endpaper, 8vo, dark green boards with "JL" stamped in red on front cover, archival mylar-protected dust jacket with lettering (unclipped), indigo endpapers, [340] pages + [4] Acknowledgements & Notes on Author & Type. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize! National Book Award Finalist; Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. <br/><br/>"SPLENDID . . . Lahiri handles her characters without leaving any fingerprints."--The New York Times Book Review.<br/><br/>NEAR FINE CONDITION: SIGNED by the PULITZER PRIZE--winning AUTHOR! Tight, bright, clean cloth. Small ink note at top of front endpaper opposite half title. Dust jacket is unclipped, clean, bright with a clean 1/2" split at the upper corner edge of the rear dj, light soil and minor abbraisions and bumps at upper right corners.<br/><br/>"Masterly, suspenseful, piercingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga; and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers."--jacket.<br/><br/>A tale of two brothers from Calcutta, whose paths diverge radically, and the family problems that ensue.
Synopsis
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of three previous works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake and, most recently, Unaccustomed Earth. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5596
- Title
- THE LOWLAND; A Novel / Jhumpa Lahiri
- Author
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067697936X
- ISBN 13
- 9780676979367
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Book
- Place of Publication
- New York Toronto
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Calcutta, religion, women, science, America, India, Rig Veda, Rhode Island, computers
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