The Shadow Lines
by:
Amitav Ghosh (author)
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, 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...
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Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, 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 years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441835062 (1441835067)
Publish date: April 15th 2010
Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
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...
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