TY - GEN AU - Ghosh, Amitav TI - The Shadow Lines SN - 9780670098149 (PB) PY - 2023/// CY - Haryana PB - Penguin Random House KW - Fiction N2 - Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's 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 time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through decades of violence in Bengal, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives ER -