The Shadow Lines

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Author: Amitav Ghosh ISBN: 9780547525013
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication: May 3, 2005
Imprint: Mariner Books Language: English
Author: Amitav Ghosh
ISBN: 9780547525013
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication: May 3, 2005
Imprint: Mariner Books
Language: English

“A stunning novel” following two families—one British, one Bengali—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sea of Poppies (The New Republic).

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—in an “ambitious, funny, poignant” saga (A. K. Ramanujan).

“Amusing, sad, wise, and truly international in scope.” —The New York Times Book Review

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“A stunning novel” following two families—one British, one Bengali—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sea of Poppies (The New Republic).

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—in an “ambitious, funny, poignant” saga (A. K. Ramanujan).

“Amusing, sad, wise, and truly international in scope.” —The New York Times Book Review

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