He asks what happened to Udayan but parents refuse to tell him but Gauri does tell him after initially offering some resistance.

His mother Bijoli and his father plan to take the child and forsake Gauri.

Subhash returns to Calcutta to find Gauri staying with his parents, who do not treat her with respect.

Shortly after beginning his third year, Subhash learns from his parents in a letter that Udayan has been killed. Holly ultimately decides to go back to Keith for Joshua's sake. Despite this, Subhash wonders at how Holly is able to be so calm when communicating with 'someone who had hurt her' in Subhash's mind this is evident when Subhash notices how she is able to calmly relay Keith directions over the telephone on how to treat an ill Joshua who is in his care for the weekend. They have sex one night while Joshua is at his father's place. He learns that she is a single mother, separated from her husband Keith. Meanwhile, Subhash befriends Holly and her son Joshua, who he meets on a beach in Rhode Island. Udayan proves his love for Gauri when he waits for her indefinitely outside a movie theater. Udayan tells of his CPI(M) days while Gauri discusses philosophy. As time passes, however, they talk and trade ideas. Gauri, who meets Udayan through her brother, is at first apathetic to him. Subhash learns that despite the massive bloodshed as a result of the Naxalite Movement, all attention from the press is focused on the Vietnam War this becomes crystal clear to him when his roommate Richard, an earnest student activist, ignorantly remarks 'Naxalbari? What's that?' At the end of his first year in the United States, Subhash learns that Udayan has found a wife, Gauri. When they leave home for university studies, their ideologies are challenged Udayan embraces the Naxalite Movement while Subhash is more interested in further education in preparation for his career and leaves for graduate studies in Rhode Island.

Raised in Tollygunge in Calcutta, brothers Subhash and Udayan are inseparable they find joy in fixing and listening to radios, learning Morse Code, and looking out for each other at school. The book also was at #3 on the hardcover list. On October 13, 2013, The Lowland reached #5 of the New York Times Best-sellers list of combined print and ebooks. The book received praise from critics and was commercially successful. The Lowland is the second novel by American author Jhumpa Lahiri, published by Alfred A.

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri