The Lives of Others

Informationen zum Autor Neel Mukherjee is the author of two previous novels, A Life Apart (2010), which won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for best novel, and The Lives of Others (2014), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Encore Prize for best second novel. Klappentext Paperback edition of the epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in 1960s Calcutta, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Explores issues of identity, poverty, class and capitalism, with an emotional resonance. '...an outstanding novel: compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce.' Rose Tremain Zusammenfassung Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel AwardWinner of the Encore AwardShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureLonglisted for the IMPAC PrizeCalcutta, 1967.

Product details

• Authors: Neel Mukherjee, Mukherjee Neel
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9780099554486
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955448-6
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Indische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Sagas, FICTION / Literary, India, Generational sagas, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary