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My beloved life : a novel

Title
My beloved life : a novel / Amitava Kumar.
Author
Kumar, Amitava, 1963-
Publication
  • New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
  • ©2024

Details

Description
331 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He becomes a historian. He has a daughter, Jugnu, who grows up to be a television journalist and then escapes her marriage for a career in the United States. And he sees currents of huge change sweep across India--from Independence to Partition, Gandhi to Modi, the Mahabharata to Somerset Maugham--in ways that Jadu is both apart from and can't help but represent."--
Subject
  • Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction
  • Self-realization > Fiction
  • Men > Fiction
  • Women > Fiction
  • Réalisation de soi > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Hommes > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Femmes > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • India > History > 20th century > Fiction
  • Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc
Genre/Form
  • Novels
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • Novels.
  • Romans.
Note
  • "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Jadu -- Jugnu -- Jadu -- Maati.
ISBN
  • 9780593536063
  • 0593536061
  • 9780593469750
  • 0593469755
  • 9780593536070 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2023018114
OCLC
YBP 2023018114
Author
Kumar, Amitava, 1963- author.
Title
My beloved life : a novel / Amitava Kumar.
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Copyright Date
©2024
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Other Form:
Online version: Kumar, Amitava, 1963- My beloved life First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024 9780593536070 (DLC) 2023018115
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