![]() ![]() “History becomes lived time - lived, lost, escaped from, returned to, lost again, and then wonderfully regained, though not resolved - leaving us at once enriched and bereft, enriched because bereft” "She defines her characters quickly and skillfully, she has a keen eye for landscape, and she knows how private lives can suggest the larger shape of the public world.Some longings really do remain impossible, and on its best pages this book knows it" It is the quietest epic I have ever read" "This gorgeous, sweeping novel, set over three generations of Bengali history, doesn’t boast at all. ![]() "Houses serve as powerful metaphors of refuge and claustrophobia, and the novel chronicles both the strength of domestic bonds and the wounds that parents and children, husbands and wives, inflict on each other” Why you read.This, you think, is the feeling you had as you read Great Expectations or Sophie’s Choice or The Kite Runner. Why you peck like a magpie past the bright glitter of publishers’ promises. "Every once in a great while, a novel comes along to remind you why you rummage through shelves in the first place. ![]() WASHINGTON POST, HUFFINGTON POST and SEATTLE TIMES ![]()
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