An Atlas of Impossible Longing (Paperback)

Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the motherless granddaughter of the house, grow up together. The boy, Mukunda, spends his time as a servant in the house or reading the books of Mrs Barnum, an Anglo-Englishwoman whose life was saved long ago by Bakul's grandmother, by now demented by loneliness. Mrs Barnum gives Mukunda the run of her house, but as he and Bakul grow, they become aware that their intense closeness is becoming something else, and Bakul's father is warned to separate them. He banishes Mukunda to a school in Calcutta. The many strands of this intensely fashioned narrative converge when Mukunda, by now a successful businessman, returns to Songarh years after he has been exiled from the only home he knew, to resolve the family's destiny.

General

Imprint:	MacLehose Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2009
Authors:	Anuradha Roy
Dimensions:	196 x 129 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	311
ISBN-13:	978-1-84724-764-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-84724-764-4
Barcode:	9781847247643

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