An Atlas of Impossible Longing
โ Scribed by Roy, Anuradha
- Book ID
- 108081536
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 747 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781451608625
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"This is why we read fiction at all" raves the Washington Post : Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, "gorgeous, sweeping novel" (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim.
On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. Here, lives intertwine and unravel. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad; her husband searches for its cause as he shapes and reshapes his garden. As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta. He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his...
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