The Shadow Lines
by:
Amitav Ghosh (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670826339 (0670826332)
Publish date: May 19th 1989
Publisher: Viking Adult
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Asia,
Post Colonial,
Bangladesh
I didn't enjoy this Ghosh book as much as I loved Sea of Poppies and The Hungry Tide. I haven't been able to put my finger on exactly why but I think part of it was that I didn't like the main character as much as I did in the other books and because it sometimes felt like more of a political statem...
Last night I was watching an episode of Lost, and as usual with this TV series, I was confused about what was going on. Is this the past? the future? reality or a flashback? And all of a sudden I realized that I have the same muddled confusion over this book. The story is about a Bengali boy an...