000			00997cam a2200217 4500
001			5899
003			OCoLC
005			20181127180518.0
008			030905t20011988ii 000 f eng d
020			_a8175300434 (pbk.)
100	1		_aGhosh, Amitav. _d1956-
245	1	4	_aThe shadow lines / _cAmitav Ghosh.
250			_a1st Indian pbk. ed.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bRavi Dayal ; _aDelhi : _cc1998, 2008.
300			_a277 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_aOpening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families. one English, one Bengali, as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian-born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
650			_aBoys -- Fiction. _v _x _y _z _2
650			_aBritish -- India -- Fiction. _v _x _y _z _2
651			_aKolkata (India) -- Fiction. _v _x _y _z _2
651		0	_aIndia _vFiction.
999			_c4983 _d4983