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The Shadow Lines
by Ghosh, Amitav
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good -/Very Good -
- ISBN 10
- 002516001X
- ISBN 13
- 9780025160019
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
Delhi: Ravi Dayal, 1988. First Indian Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good -. The second novel by the author of The Sea of Poppies. In red cloth with wear and some fading to edges and bumped spine ends and front top corner which is partially a result of poor binding quality. Jacket is unclipped and shows general wear especially to edges with a couple of nicks, rubbing to corners and a small chip to bottom of spine.
Synopsis
From the acclaimed author of Sea of Poppies , a novel weaving history and memory together to create “a rare work that balances formal ingenuity, heart, and mind” ( New Republic ) Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families—one English, one Bengali—as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
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- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB000538AG
- Title
- The Shadow Lines
- Author
- Ghosh, Amitav
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Indian Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 002516001X
- ISBN 13
- 9780025160019
- Publisher
- Ravi Dayal
- Place of Publication
- Delhi
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Indian Literature;
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