The shadow lines
By: Amitav Ghosh.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Fiction -- 20th century -- India.
Description: "A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others - an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives are intertwined with his.When a seemingly random act of violence threatens his vision of the world, he begins piecing together events for himself, and in the process unravels secrets with devastating consequences"--Publisher description.