All the Lives We Never Lived
β Scribed by Anuradha Roy
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 404 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
**From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter , The Folded Earth , and An Atlas of Impossible Longing , 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. **
In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small βtown India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British.
So 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.
Though 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.
What follows is her life as...
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