Neel Mukherjee
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Neel Mukherjee delivers a powerful, epic story of a family and a nation. The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up of their five adult children and their respective children, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. Each set of family members occupies a floor of the home, in accordance to their standing within...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into?--Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives, formally daring, fierce, but full of pity delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
3) Choice
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her...