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An atlas of impossible longing : a novel / Anuradha Roy.
On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. Here, lives intertwine and unravel. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad; her husband searches for its cause as he shapes and reshapes his garden. As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta. He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost--and he knows that he must return.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451608625 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 319 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Free Press trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2011.
- Copyright: ©2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Great Britain : MacLehose, 2008. Includes a reading group guide. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cast of characters -- Prologue -- Part I: Drowned house -- Part II: Ruined fort -- Part III: Water's edge -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments. |
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| Subject: | Orphans > Fiction. India > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction. India > History > Partition, 1947 > Fiction. Bengal (India) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Romance fiction. |
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- 14 of 15 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | F ROY (Text) | 35101000330154 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
