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My beloved life : a novel / Amitava Kumar.

Kumar, Amitava, 1963- (author.).

Summary:

"Jadunath Kunwar’s beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935 in a village near George Orwell’s birthplace, Jadu’s mother, while pregnant with him, nearly dies from a cobra bite. When we see Jadu again, he is in college, meeting the Sherpa who first summited Everest and wondering what it means to be modern. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, and as changes big and small sweep across India, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He befriends poets and politicians. He becomes a historian. And he has a daughter, Jugnu, a television journalist with a career in the United States—whose own story recasts the past in a new light....[This is a novel] about how we tell stories and write history, how individuals play a counterpoint to big movements, how no single life is without consequence." --publisher's website

Record details

ISBN: 9780593536063
ISBN: 0593536061
Physical Description: 332 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf" --title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [337-338])