The Shadow Lines
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ISBN:
9780195636314
Publication date:
01/05/1997
Book
320 pages
218x136mm
Price: 385.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780195636314
Publication date:
01/05/1997
Book
320 pages
Amitav Ghosh
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh is a powerful novel that explores the blurred boundaries between nations, people, and personal histories. Through the eyes of a young narrator and his enigmatic cousin Tridib, the story weaves together family drama, political unrest, and historical events across Calcutta, London, and Dhaka. A compelling meditation on nationalism, memory, and identity, this Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel is essential reading for students and literature enthusiasts alike. This edition includes critical essays and academic aids tailored for university readers.
Rights: World Rights
Amitav Ghosh
Description
The story begins with the boy’s perceptive and eccentric cousin, Tridib, who opens up entire worlds for him to explore—long before he ever leaves Calcutta. As the boy matures, he finds himself drawn into the currents of history: his grandmother entangled in an age-old family feud; Tridib and his family in England in 1993; and their English friends, whose daughter’s love for Tridib can only end in tragedy. These private upheavals unfold against a backdrop of public turmoil—the Blitz in wartime London, civil strife in post-Partition Dhaka, and riots in Calcutta.
This novel explores the meaning of political freedom in the modern world and the powerful force of nationalism. It examines the "shadow lines" we draw between people and nations—lines that are at once absurd illusions and sources of terrifying violence.
This edition includes four critical essays that will prove helpful and thought-provoking for both students and general readers. It is also the first edition of the novel to include academic aids specifically designed for university undergraduates.
About the author
Winner of the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger, Amitav Ghosh was born in 1956 and spent his childhood in Calcutta, Dhaka, and Colombo. A graduate of Delhi University, he earned a D.Phil in Social Anthropology from Oxford. He has taught at the Delhi School of Economics and served as Visiting Professor at Columbia University and the University of Virginia. His other acclaimed works include The Circle of Reason, In An Antique Land, Sea of Poppies, The Hungry Tide, The Glass Palace, River of Smoke, The Calcutta Chromosome, Flood of Fire, and The Great Derangement.
Amitav Ghosh
Table of contents
Text of the Novel
- Going Away
- Coming Home
Critical Essays
- Maps and Mirrors: Co-ordinates of Meaning in The Shadow Lines
Meenakshi Mukherjee - Separation Anxiety: Growing Up Inter/National in The Shadow Lines
Suvir Kaul - The Division of Experience in The Shadow Lines
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan - A Reading of The Shadow Lines
A.N. Kaul
Amitav Ghosh
Description
The story begins with the boy’s perceptive and eccentric cousin, Tridib, who opens up entire worlds for him to explore—long before he ever leaves Calcutta. As the boy matures, he finds himself drawn into the currents of history: his grandmother entangled in an age-old family feud; Tridib and his family in England in 1993; and their English friends, whose daughter’s love for Tridib can only end in tragedy. These private upheavals unfold against a backdrop of public turmoil—the Blitz in wartime London, civil strife in post-Partition Dhaka, and riots in Calcutta.
This novel explores the meaning of political freedom in the modern world and the powerful force of nationalism. It examines the "shadow lines" we draw between people and nations—lines that are at once absurd illusions and sources of terrifying violence.
This edition includes four critical essays that will prove helpful and thought-provoking for both students and general readers. It is also the first edition of the novel to include academic aids specifically designed for university undergraduates.
About the author
Winner of the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger, Amitav Ghosh was born in 1956 and spent his childhood in Calcutta, Dhaka, and Colombo. A graduate of Delhi University, he earned a D.Phil in Social Anthropology from Oxford. He has taught at the Delhi School of Economics and served as Visiting Professor at Columbia University and the University of Virginia. His other acclaimed works include The Circle of Reason, In An Antique Land, Sea of Poppies, The Hungry Tide, The Glass Palace, River of Smoke, The Calcutta Chromosome, Flood of Fire, and The Great Derangement.
Table of contents
Text of the Novel
- Going Away
- Coming Home
Critical Essays
- Maps and Mirrors: Co-ordinates of Meaning in The Shadow Lines
Meenakshi Mukherjee - Separation Anxiety: Growing Up Inter/National in The Shadow Lines
Suvir Kaul - The Division of Experience in The Shadow Lines
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan - A Reading of The Shadow Lines
A.N. Kaul
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