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A play for the end of the world

Title

A play for the end of the world / Jai Chakrabarti.

Author

Chakrabarti, Jai,

Publication

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Description

x, 286 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"A dazzling debut novel--the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance"--
New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government-- the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves. -- adapted from jacket

Subject

Genre/Form

Call Number

JFE 21-8110

ISBN

LCCN

2020045419

OCLC

1200037794

Author

Chakrabarti, Jai, author.

Title

A play for the end of the world / Jai Chakrabarti.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Chakrabarti, Jai. Play for the end of the world New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021 9780525658931 (DLC) 2020045420

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8110