The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh

244 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

fiction historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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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...

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