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Book: The Lowland
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
Once, within this enclave, there were two ponds, oblong, side by side. Behind them was a lowland spanning a few acres.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
Havia a ansiedade de que uum dia não se sucedesse ao outro, junto com a certeza de que certamente se sucederia. Era como prender a respiração, como Udayan tentara fazer na baixada. E, no entanto, de alguma maneira ela estava respirando. Assim como o tempo ficava parado, mas também passava, alguma outra parte de seu corpo que lhe era inconsciente estava agora extraindo oxigêncio, obrigando-os a continuar.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
The sunlight on her hair.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
station on Cape Cod looks close to where you are. It's in a place called Wellfleet.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
She'd convinced herself that Subhash was her rival, and that she was in competition for him for Bela, a competition that felt insulting, unjust. But of course it had not been a competition, it had been her own squandering. Her own withdrawal, covert, ineluctable. With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen, washing up the morning dishes she'd ignored, then getting dinner started. She measured out the nightly cup of rice, letting it soak in a pan on the counter. She peeled onions and potatoes and picked through lentils and prepared another night's dinner, then fed Bela. She was never able to understand why this relatively unchallenging set of chores felt so relentless. When she was finished, she did not understand why they had depleted her
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate."
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
Years ago, Dr. Grant had helped her to put what she felt into words. She'd told Bela that the feeling would ebb but never fully go away. It would form part of her landscape, wherever she went. She said that her mother's absence would always be present in her thoughts. She told Bela that there would never be an answer for why she'd gone.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet to experience any of those things.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
What had Subhash told Bela, to keep her away? Nothing, probably. It was the just punishment for her crime. She understood now what it meant to walk away from her child. It had been her own act of killing. A connection she had severed, resulting in a death that applied only to the two of them. It was a crime worse than anything Udayan had committed. She had never written to Bela. Never dared reach out, to reassure her. What reassurance was hers to give? What she'd done could never be undone. Her silence, her absence, seemed decent in comparison.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
Subhash was angry with himself for going along with it. For still needing to prove he could. He was sick of the fear that always rose up in him: that he would cease to exist, and that he and Udayan would cease to be brothers, were Subhash to resist him.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland
It was Durga Pujo, the city's most anticipated days. The stores, the sidewalks, were overflowing. At the ends of certain alleys, or in gaps among buildings, she saw the pandals. Durga armed with her weapons, flanked by her four children, depicted and worshiped in so many versions. Made of plaster, made of clay. She was resplendent, formidable. A lion helped to conquer the demon at her feet. She was a daughter visiting her family, visiting the city, transforming it for a time.
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