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The Lives of Others

Neel Mukherjee

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#3422 of 8,085 books · #527 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2014).

Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is this note… The ageing patriarch and matriarch of his family, the Ghoshes, preside over their large household, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. More than poisonous rivalries among sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the family business, this is a family unravelling as the society around it fractures. For this is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: the chasm between the generations, and between those who have and those who have not, has never been wider.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
ISBN-13
9780393351712
Topics
Family sagaPolitical unrest and revolutionClass inequality

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