My Beloved Life: A novel
by Amitava Kumar
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"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 becomes a historian. He has a daughter, Jugnu, who grows up to be a television journalist and then escapes her marriage for a career in the United States. And he sees currents of huge change sweep show more across India--from Independence to Partition, Gandhi to Modi, the Mahabharata to Somerset Maugham--in ways that Jadu is both apart from and can't help but represent."-- show lessTags
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Amitava Kumar is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College and the author of numerous books, including Lunch with a Bigot: The Writer in the World; A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna; and Nobody Does the Right Thing, all also published by Duke University Press; and most recently, Immigrant, Montana: A Novel.
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- 2024
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction
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- 823.9140 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
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- PR9499.4 .K8618 .M9 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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