An Atlas of Impossible Longing

Name: An Atlas of Impossible Longing
Brand: Quercus Publishing
SKU: 9781847247643-G
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By Anuradha Roy

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Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the motherless granddaughter of the house, grow up together. The boy, Mukunda, spends his time as a servant in the house or reading the books of Mrs Barnum, an Anglo-Englishwoman whose life was saved long ago by Bakul's grandmother, by now demented by loneliness. Mrs Barnum gives Mukunda the run of her house, but as he and Bakul grow, they become aware that their intense closeness is becoming something else, and Bakul's father is warned to separate them. He banishes Mukunda to a school in Calcutta. The many strands of this intensely fashioned narrative converge when Mukunda, by now a successful businessman, returns to Songarh years after he has been exiled from the only home he knew, to resolve the family's destiny.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

320

Release Date:

2009-03-05

Publication Date:

2009-03-05

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1847247644

ISBN13:

9781847247643

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

264 g

Height:

129 cm

Width:

197 cm

Thickness:

23 cm

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