All the lives we never lived / Anuradha Roy.

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0857058185

Paperback All the lives we never lived / Anuradha Roy.

Author: Roy, Anuradha,

Publication year: 2019

Media class: Paperback

Category: Fiction

Publisher: London : MacLehose Press, 2019.

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 9780857058188 (pbk.) :

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'In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman' - so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist's instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri's town, opening up for her the vision of other possible lives. What took Myshkin's mother from India to Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar environment? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between anguish at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism.

India History British occupation, 1765-1947 Fiction.

India History 20th century Fiction.

Bali (Indonesia : Province) History 20th century Fiction.