Shadow lines

Gosh, Amitav

Shadow lines - - New Delhi Penguin 2009 - 277 p. Pbk

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960's. 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 II to the late twentieth century, through decades of violence in Bengal, observing the ways in which political events invade

9780143066569


English fiction
India
India--Kolkata
Boys
London (England)

823 GHO

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