The Shadow Lines, by Satyajit Ray

Name : The Shadow Lines, by Satyajit Ray

Author : Satyajit Ray

Book Format : Paperback

Edition : Latest Edition

Genre : Arts,Film & Photography

ISBN : INM9780099511021

Language : English

Pages : 301-400 Pages

Publish Year : 2019

Publisher : Penguin India

Reading Age : Adults

Sub Genre : Fantasy

As a young boy, Amitav Ghosh's narrator travels across time through the tales of those around him, traversing the unreliable planes of memory, unmindful of physical, political and chronological borders. But as he grows older, he is haunted by a seemingly random act of violence. Bits and pieces of stories, both half-remembered and imagined, come together in his mind until he arrives at an intricate, interconnected picture of the world where borders and boundaries mean nothing, mere shadow lines that we draw dividing people and nations.

Out of a complex web of memories, relationships and images, Amitav Ghosh builds an intensely vivid, funny and moving story. Exposing the idea of the nation state as an illusion, an arbitrary dissection of people, Ghosh depicts the absurd manner in which your home can suddenly become your enemy.

Country of Origin : India