Two Books by Neel Mukherjee
Requirements: Mobi Reader, 1.41MB
Overview: Neel Mukherjee (born 1970) is an Indian writer writing in English. His book Past Continuous won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award in 2008. His book The Lives of Others is shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
Mukherjee was educated at Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata. He read English at Jadavpur University before proceeding to University College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship where he studied English graduating in 1992. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, and graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001.
Genre: Fiction>Cultural > India
A Life Apart: Ritwik Ghosh, 22 and recently orphaned, has the chance to start a new life in Oxford, when he arrives there from Calcutta. But he soon discovers Oxford holds little of the salvation he is looking for. Instead Ritwik moves to London, where he slips into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants.
The Lives of Others: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Neel Mukherjee delivers a powerful, epic story of a family and a nation.
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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