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All the Lives We Never Lived
Anuradha Roy
Atria Books
December 2018
On Sale: November 20, 2018
288 pages
ISBN: 1982100516
EAN: 9781982100513
Kindle: B07CL4LTN4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping
on Jupiter, The Folded Earth, and An Atlas of
Impossible Longing, a poignant and sweeping novel set in
India during World War II and the present-day about a son’s
quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had
run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact
German, but in small‑town India in those days, all white
foreigners were largely thought of as British. So begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, a
rebellious, alluring artist who abandons parenthood and
marriage to follow her primal desire for freedom. Though freedom may be stirring in the air of India, across
the world the Nazis have risen to power in Germany. At this
point of crisis, a German artist from Gayatri’s past seeks
her out. His arrival ignites passions she has long been
forced to suppress. What follows is her life as pieced together by her son, a
journey that takes him through India and Dutch‑held Bali.
Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned,
he comes to understand his long‑lost mother, and the
connections between strife at home and a war‑torn universe
overtaken by patriotism. With her signature “precise and poetic” (The
Independent) writing, Anuradha Roy’s All the Lives We
Never Lived is a spellbinding and emotionally powerful
saga about family, identity, and love.
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