An Atlas Of Impossible Longing

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  • 304

    Pages
  • 9780330456784

    ISBN
  • 129 mm

    Width
  • 198 mm

    Height
  • 252 gram

    Weight
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 18 SEPTEMBER 2009

    Publish Date
  • 13 mm

    Spine Width

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    Description

    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 Bakuls 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...  Read More

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    Anuradha Roy

    Anuradha Roy was educated in Hyderabad, Calcutta and Cambridge (UK). She is an editor at Permanent Black, an independent press publishing in South Asian history, politics and culture. She lives mainly in Ranikhet, India, with her husband Rukun Advani and their dog, Biscoot.