All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
Category: Literature, Fiction
Rating: 4.1/5
Pages: 288
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In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in smallâtown India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British.
So begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, a rebellious, alluring artist who abandons parenthood and marriage to follow her primal desire for freedom.
Though freedom may be stirring in the air of India, across the world the Nazis have risen to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, a German artist from Gayatriâs past seeks her out. His arrival ignites passions she has long been forced to suppress.
What follows is her life as pieced together by her son, a journey that takes him through India and Dutchâheld Bali. Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, he comes to understand his longâlost mother, and the connections between strife at home and a warâtorn universe overtaken by patriotism.
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Category: Literature, Fiction
Rating: 4.1/5
Pages: 288
About Book:
In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in smallâtown India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British.
So begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, a rebellious, alluring artist who abandons parenthood and marriage to follow her primal desire for freedom.
Though freedom may be stirring in the air of India, across the world the Nazis have risen to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, a German artist from Gayatriâs past seeks her out. His arrival ignites passions she has long been forced to suppress.
What follows is her life as pieced together by her son, a journey that takes him through India and Dutchâheld Bali. Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, he comes to understand his longâlost mother, and the connections between strife at home and a warâtorn universe overtaken by patriotism.
