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020 _a9780670098149 (PB)
041 _aeng
080 _a82-3
_bGHO
100 _aGhosh, Amitav
245 _aThe Shadow Lines
260 _bPenguin Random House
_c2023
_aHaryana
300 _a277p.
520 _aOpening 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
650 _aFiction
690 _aGeneral
942 _cBK
999 _c60477
_d60477