Lowland, paperback/jhumpa lahiri

Now in paperback, this novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the National Book Award 2013.

Set in India, it follows 2 brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past and a country torn by revolution.

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of }The Namesake, Interpreter Of Maladies{ and }Unaccustomed Earth{.

A domestic epic that manages to combine the personal and intimate with the political and the public superbly well Harry Ritchie, }Daily Mail{.