000			00782nam a2200157Ia 4500
020			_a9780143066569
082			_a823 GHO
100			_aGosh, Amitav
245			_aShadow lines
250			_a-
260			_bPenguin _aNew Delhi _c2009
300			_a277 p. Pbk
520			_aOpening 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
650			_aEnglish fiction _aIndia _aIndia--Kolkata _aBoys _aLondon (England)
942			_cBK
999			_c101675 _d101675