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With the promise of a sweeping family saga unfolding amidst revolutionary politics and social upheaval in 1960s eastern India, I was pretty much primed to love this novel. And, thankfully, it more than lived up to my expectations.
The Lives of Others charts the rising and falling fortunes of the well-to-do Ghosh family in Calcutta. The petty jealousies among the in-laws, brewing financial troubles, and the dashed dreams and myriad frustrations of the strong- and weak-willed family members made f ...more
The Lives of Others charts the rising and falling fortunes of the well-to-do Ghosh family in Calcutta. The petty jealousies among the in-laws, brewing financial troubles, and the dashed dreams and myriad frustrations of the strong- and weak-willed family members made f ...more

I found this to be a weighty read - both in size and depth.
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