1988The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh
Ghosh's narrator remembers a divided subcontinent from a house in south Calcutta, where the streets around Gole Park and the lake hold a family's ordinary life. Memory then jumps the borders the novel calls shadow lines, west to the Prices' London and east to a grandmother's Dhaka, where the 1964 riots turn distance into loss. The map is anchored here in Calcutta, with those two waypoints reaching beyond it.
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