A retired schoolteacher in present-day Calcutta is caught in the labyrinth of rusty bureaucracy and political crime under a communist government. Across a vast ocean of time, a widow leads a life of stark suffering in a wealthy feudal household in 19th century, British-ruled Bengal, at a time when widow-burning has gone out of practice but widow remarriage is far from coming into vogue.As their stories begin to connect, they weave a larger narrative of historical forgetting, of voices that have been pushed out of the nation's memory. And what we are left with is the intriguing tale of two cities: the same geographical space separated by decades of experience and neglect.'This is a book to cherish for a very long time, for its descriptions and evocations as well as for what it tells us about the ebb and flow of human expectation' ---Amit Chaudhuri
The Far Pavilions
M.M. KAYE
ST. MARTIN PRESS/PAN MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LIMITED
Trade Wind
ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
LITTLE HOUSE
PHILIPPA GREGORY
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
MERIDON
EARTHLY JOYS The Other Boleyn Girl
VIRGIN EARTH
THE FAVOURED CHILD Book 2 The Wideacre Trilogy
FALLEN SKIES
The Mirror and the Light
HILARY MANTEL
FOURTH ESTATE/HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
Wolf Hall
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