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Original Title:	The Shadow Lines
ISBN:	061832996X (ISBN13: 9780618329960)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Sahitya Akademi Award for English (1989)

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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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Title	:	The Shadow Lines
Author	:	Amitav Ghosh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	May 3rd 2005 by Mariner Books (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asian Literature. Indian Literature

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..... all I would like to say about this one is that......you know the book is actually good when it completely devastates you...you know it has served its purpose when it makes you question everything that you think you think you had known."And then I think to myself why don't they draw thousands of little lines through the whole sub continent and give every little place a new name? What would it change? It's a mirage;the whole thing is a mirage.How can anyone divide a memory ?"

I had really mixed feelings about The Shadow Lines. On the one hand it is a brilliantly written novel, which interweaves a number of stories and characters effortlessly. On the other hand I found the latter half of the novel really hard finish. I think the reason I found the second half of the novel so difficult was that for the first half I had been anticipating that something big was round the corner and was bound to happen and any minute and it never did. As I continued the realisation hit me

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.In The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh writes about memory, or rather the imperfections of memory. The book is a novel where the narrator recalls stories and events from his childhood and compares them with perspectives of other people to paint a full picture of the narrative. The "shadow lines" are essentially the lines which are present in one person's perspective but non-existent in

What had they felt, I wondered, when they discovered that they had created not a separation, but a yet-undiscovered irony . . . the simple fact that there had never been a moment in the four-thousand-year-old history of that map, when the places we know as Dhaka and Calcutta were more closely bound to each other than after they had drawn their lines so closely that I, in Calcutta, had only to look into the mirror to be in Dhaka; a moment when each city was the inverted image of the other,

I must agree with Sandybanks review, the plot is quite confusing and the only engrossing character is the grand-mother who plays the main role in this narrative.



This book was recommended to me by a friend who had simply loved it. She claimed the book to be one that was meant to be read several times, with each reading rendering a deeper understanding and probably a different interpretation. I was naturally curious and wanted to see what she meant by that statement. With that in mind, I promised to read it with her and discuss it. Of course, I was really lazy and never got around to reading it, until today. As I sit to review this book, the first thought