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The Shadow Lines
  • Author : Amitav Ghosh
  • Release Date : 26 January 2010
  • Publisher : Penguin Books India
  • Genre : Boys
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 13 : 9780143066569
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Book excerpt: Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.

The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines

Author : Amitav Ghosh,Amitav
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Genre : Boys
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Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II ...

The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : HMH
Genre : Fiction
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“A stunning novel” following two families—one British, one Bengali—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sea of Poppies (The New Republic). Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives intertwine across the ...

The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre : Fiction
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Amitav Ghosh s The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh s The Shadow Lines

Author : Arvind Chowdhary
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Genre : Uncategorized
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The Shadow Lines Is A Highly Innovative, Complex And Celebrated Novel Of Amitav Ghosh. Published In 1988, It Received The Prestigious Sahitya Academy Award In The Following Year. Not Only Literary Critics But Also Some Noted Litterateurs Have Acclaimed It For What It Has Been Able To Achieve As A Work ...

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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The author reminisces on the past thiry years of his life, providing eyewitness accounts and reflections on some of the most turbulent events of his time, including the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the Pol Pot massacres of Cambodia, and September 11th....

Sea Of Poppies PB

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Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Genre : Slave trade
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Sea of Poppies is a stunningly vibrant and intensely human work that confirms Amitav Ghosh's reputation as a master storyteller. At the heart of this epic saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean to the Mauritius Islands. As to the ...

Shadowlines

Shadowlines

Author : Stephen Kinnane
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Alena Graedon
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Genre : Fiction
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Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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The story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the sense of isolation that his position imposes, the captain crosses the "shadow-line" between youth ...

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Publisher : Vintage
Genre : Fiction
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Amitav Ghosh s The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh s The Shadow Lines

Author : Novy Kapadia
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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While Amitav Ghosh Has Written A Number Of Novels, His Best Known Is The Shadow Lines, A Novel On The Theme Of Partition, That Has Been Translated Into Many Languages Of The World. The Volume Aims At An Overall Assessment Of This Classic Novel Of Ghosh....

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Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : HMH
Genre : Fiction
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A New York Times Notable Book: A policeman chases a falsely accused man on a wild journey around the world in this “utterly involving” novel (The Sunday Times). When eight-year-old Nachiketa Bose first arrives in the East Bengali village of Lalpukur, he receives the name Alu—potato—for the size ...

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Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Genre : Indic fiction (English)
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From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, ...

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Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Genre : India
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