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All the Lives We Never Lived
by Anuradha Roy
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War, nationalism, and trees shape lives in unforeseeable ways in this novel about a family and a country struggling with enormous transformations.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 artists 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 Gayatris town, opening up to her the vision of other possible lives.What took Myshkins mother from India to Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar universe? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between the anguish at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism.Anuradha Roys deeply moving novel tells the story of men and women trapped in a dangerous era uncannily similar to the present. Its scale is matched by its power as a parable for our times
About The Author
Anuradha Roy is the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, The Folded Earth, and Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was longlisted for the Man Booker prize 2015. She lives in Ranikhet, India.
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