My Beloved Life

Informationen zum Autor Amitava Kumar Klappentext An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man¿s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid. Zusammenfassung 'This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling.' – Salman Rushdie A novel that tells the story of modern India, through the life of one apparently ordinary man, from the death of Gandhi to the rise of Modi Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He meets the sherpa who first summited Everest. 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 perspective sheds new light on his story. All the while, currents of huge change sweep across India – from Independence to Partition, Gandhi to Modi, the Mahabharata to Somerset Maugham, cholera to covid – and buffet both Jadu and Jugnu's lives. Piercing, fleet-footed, and resonant, Amitava Kumar's novel explores how we tell stories and write history, how individuals play a counterpoint to big movements, and how no single life is without consequence. 'Amitava Kumar has the precious ability to write across borders and cultures.' – Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland

Product details

• Authors: Amitava Kumar
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2024
• EAN: 9781035013708
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3501370-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, India, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Father’s Day, Father?s Day, FICTION / World Literature / India / 21st Century, FICTION / World Literature / India / 20th Century