Modern & World Fiction
The Shadow Lines
by Amitav Ghosh
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About the book
A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others - an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in london whose lives are intertwined with his. When a seemingly random act of violence threatens his vision of the world, he begins piecing together events for himself, and in the process unravels secrets with devastating consequences. Set in calcutta and london and spanning generations from the outbreak of the second world war to the late twentieth century, the shadow lines is a haunting novel from one of the world's greatest writers.
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