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The Shadow Lines
by Amitav Ghosh
The borders between nations are imaginary. The deaths are real.
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you want to understand how the lines we draw between countries and communities create the violence we then blame on human nature
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A nameless narrator in Calcutta reconstructs his family's relationship with a British family across three generations — Dhaka, Calcutta, London — and the 1964 communal riots that killed his uncle. Ghosh uses memory and geography as his formal tools: the shadow lines of the title are the borders that divide the world — between India and Bangladesh, between communities, between past and present — and his argument is that these lines are imaginary, that the violence they produce is real, and that the imagination that drew them can also undo them. The most formally sophisticated Indian novel on this shelf.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- India • South Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Indian author
- Themes
- After EmpireGenerations
