The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over
their large household, made up of their five adult children and
their respective children, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled
surface of their lives the sands are shifting. Each set of family
members occupies a floor of the home, in accordance to their
standing within the family. Poisonous rivalries between
sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the
family business threaten to unravel bonds of kinship as social
unrest brews in greater Indian society. This is a moment of
turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: the chasm between
the generations, and between those who have and those who have not,
has never been wider. The eldest grandchild, Supratik, compelled by
his idealism, becomes dangerously involved in extremist political
activism-an action that further catalyzes the decay of the Ghosh
home. Ambitious, rich, and compassionate, The Lives of Others
anatomizes the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family history, at
the same time as it questions the nature of political action and
the limits of empathy. It is a novel of unflinching power and
emotional force.
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