A Life Apart, Neel Mukherjee
A Life Apart, Neel Mukherjee
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A Life Apart
A Novel

Author: Neel Mukherjee

Narrator: Sid Sagar

Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/22/2024


Synopsis

"A brilliant first novel . . . shockingly good." —Rose Tremain, Daily Telegraph

Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik's own goes into free fall.

About Neel Mukherjee

Neel Mukherjee is the author of four novels, including The Lives of Others, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; and A State of Freedom, a New York Times Notable Book. He divides his time between London, England, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kunal on June 22, 2014

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

Goodreads review by Tanabrus on May 23, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Barbara on June 12, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Alison on July 11, 2012

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

Goodreads review by P. on July 25, 2017

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