The paper deals with The Lowland (2013), the second novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, an American female writer of Bengali origin and a winner of Pulitzer Prize and many other literary awards. Subhash and Udayan, two brothers, whose stories unfold on the background of the 20th century India and its dramatic history, are in the center of the narration. Membership in an extremist Naxalite gang, spectacular assassination, immigration to the US, tragic love story – these and many other events are experienced by Jhumpa Lahiri’s characters. Basing on family saga genre strategies and introducing them into the multicultural context represented, the writer contemplates the issues of the so-called “big”, official history of the whole country and its interaction with the “small”, private one, both of them in no way inferior to each other. The themes of assimilation, immigration, cultural clash and self-identification are also involved in the narrative, what has already become a hallmark of Lahiri’s fiction.