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An atlas of impossible longing
- Title
- An atlas of impossible longing / Anuradha Roy.
- Author
- Roy, Anuradha.
- Publication
- New York : Free Press, 2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 12-5095 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 319 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Overview: Already a sensation around the world: family life meets historical romance in an astonishing novel about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of a writer who richly deserves her international acclaim. On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. Here, lives intertwine and unravel. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad; her husband searches for its cause as he shapes and reshapes his garden. As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta. He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost-and he knows that he must return.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Romance fiction.
- Note
- Originally published: London : Maclehose Press, 2008.
- Includes reading group guide.
- Contents
- Cast of characters -- Prologue -- Part 1: Drowned house -- Part 2: Ruined fort -- Part 3: Water's edge -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-5095
- ISBN
- 9781451608625
- 1451608624
- LCCN
- 2010019362
- OCLC
- 614988993
- Author
- Roy, Anuradha.
- Title
- An atlas of impossible longing / Anuradha Roy.
- Imprint
- New York : Free Press, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st Free Press trade pbk. ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-5095