Summary
Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal im... Full description
Summary: |
Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik's own goes into free fall. |
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Physical Description: |
371 p. |
ISBN: |
9780393352108 0393352102 |
Author Notes: |
Neel Mukherjee is a UK author who won the 2015 Encore Award for his novel The Lives of Others. Mukherjee's novel, which was also shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award, was chosen from a shortlist of six. (Bowker Author Biography) |