Bibliograph

The shadow lines, a novel, Amitav Ghosh

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The shadow lines, a novel, Amitav Ghosh

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The shadow lines

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Amitav Ghosh

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives intertwine across the generations in both 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 years of Bengali partition and violence-observing the ways in which political events invade private lives

Target audience

adult

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