A life apart
By: Neel Mukherjee
Edition: 1st UK ed.
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781849011013; 9780393352108
Subjects: Young gay men; East Indians; Landladies; Governesses; Immigrants; Social isolation; Fiction
Work titles: Past continuous
Description: Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik's own goes into free fall.--Provided by publisher.
Notes: First published by Picador in London and New Delhi in 2008 under title: Past continuous.