The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

From the acclaimed author of Sea of Poppies, a novel weaving history and memory together to create a rare work that balances formal ingenuity, heart, and mind (New Republic)

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one English, one Bengali--as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War I to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.

Ghosh, Amitav: - Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. Ghosh has won France's Prix Medici Etranger, India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University, where he is a visiting professor, and his homes in India and Brooklyn, New York.
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ISBN 13 9780618329960
ISBN 10 061832996X
Title The Shadow Lines
Author Amitav Ghosh
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Harper Perennial
Year published 2005-05-03
Number of pages 246
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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