A Life Apart
A Novel

The framing story here is Ritwik's and the story-in-the-story is that of Miss Gilby's; Miss Gilby herself is a minor character from Tagore's 'Ghare Baire' and Neel tells us her story, a new story (because it's her version of things, including events from the original hundred year old novel) in the o......more

I presupposti per un bel libro c'erano tutti. La storia di un ragazzo indiano che dalla povertà di Calcutta riesce ad arrivare in Inghilterra con una borsa di studio, solo per poi ritrovarsi senza prospettive alla fine dei due anni preferendo sparire nella clandestinità delle strade di Londra piuttos......more

This book has received a lot of great critical acclaim but I found it hard to get into. It mixes two very different stories, one a historic fictional account of an English woman in India working as a tutor and companion to the wife of a wealthy local Indian man in the early 1900s, and the other a la......more

Fans of Alan Hollinghurst and E M Forster’s A Passage to India will love this brilliant debut novel. It’s crisply and truthfully written, with an acute eye for the way people behave when they are trying to negotiate unfamiliar environments. Sometimes shocking, sometimes illuminating, laced with wit......more

Past Continuous announced the debut of Neel Mukherjee as a novelist who was theretofore famous for his brilliant book reviews. (If you haven't read his reviews yet, I strongly suggest you do. They're as good as reviews can get.) It won some minor literary prizes here and there but did not manage to......more