An absorbing, deeply moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn.
An absorbing, deeply moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn.
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An absorbing, deeply moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn. Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935, in a village near George Orwell's birthplace, Jadu's mother, while pregnant with him, nearly dies from a cobra bite. When we see Jadu again, he is in college, meeting the Sherpa who first summited Everest and wondering what it means to be modern. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, and as changes big and small sweep across India, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He befriends poets and politicians. He becomes a historian. And he has a daughter, Jugnu, a television journalist with a career in the United States—whose own story recasts the past in a new light. Piercing, fleet-footed, and undeniably resonant, this is a novel from a singularly gifted writer about how we tell stories and write history, how individuals play a counterpoint to big movements, how no single life is without consequence.
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Author: Amitava Kumar
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9789393852342
Publication Date: 05 May 2024
An absorbing, deeply moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn.
An absorbing, deeply moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn.
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An absorbing, deeply moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn. Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935, in a village near George Orwell's birthplace, Jadu's mother, while pregnant with him, nearly dies from a cobra bite. When we see Jadu again, he is in college, meeting the Sherpa who first summited Everest and wondering what it means to be modern. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, and as changes big and small sweep across India, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He befriends poets and politicians. He becomes a historian. And he has a daughter, Jugnu, a television journalist with a career in the United States—whose own story recasts the past in a new light. Piercing, fleet-footed, and undeniably resonant, this is a novel from a singularly gifted writer about how we tell stories and write history, how individuals play a counterpoint to big movements, how no single life is without consequence.
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Author: Amitava Kumar
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9789393852342
Publication Date: 05 May 2024
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