{"product_id":"all-the-lives-we-never-lived-book-anuradha-roy-9781982100513","title":"All the Lives We Never Lived","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eSleeping on Jupiter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Folded Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Atlas of Impossible Longing\u003c\/i\u003e, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present-day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGerman, but in small-town India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, a rebellious, alluring artist who abandons parenthood and marriage to follow her primal desire for freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough freedom may be stirring in the air of India, across the world the Nazis have risen to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, a German artist from Gayatri's past seeks her out. His arrival ignites passions she has long been forced to suppress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat follows is her life as pieced together by her son, a journey that takes him through India and Dutch-held Bali. Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, he comes to understand his long-lost mother, and the connections between strife at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her signature precise and poetic (\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e) writing, Anuradha Roy's \u003ci\u003eAll the Lives We Never Lived\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding and emotionally powerful saga about family, identity, and love.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50404666179857,"sku":"CIN1982100516A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50404667326737,"sku":"CIN1982100516G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51383405379857,"sku":"GOR011117401","price":18.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51407733391633,"sku":"CIN1982100516VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982100516.jpg?v=1751156967","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/all-the-lives-we-never-lived-book-anuradha-roy-9781982100513","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}