{"product_id":"an-atlas-of-impossible-longing","title":"An Atlas of Impossible Longing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Anuradha Roy\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador India\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2009\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9780330456784\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnuradha Roy’s story of a family in the first half of the twentieth century begins on the edge of a mud-brown river in spate, swollen, menacing infinitely destructive. Here in a remote town in north India, an eccentric patriarch shelters an abandoned child, not realizing that the boy will transform his world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeneath the trickle of the family’s ordinary life, deep currents swell. Nirmal dreams of a happiness that cannot be with a widowed cousin. His mother feels her grasp over reality slipping even as her husband, Amulya lost in his own world, shapes and reshapes his exquisite garden. Meanwhile, Nirmal’s daughter Bakul runs wild with the orphan Mukunda.And as their closeness changes into something else; it threatens to destroy those around them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopulated by intensely imagined places and people, this is a brilliantly told romance as well as an elegy for lost landscapes. Anuradha Roy writes with a rhythm that seduces us into an intricate, enchanting tale. Her story is heartbreaking in its yearning for what is vanishing forever and it’s longing for what may never come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I     The Drowned House\u003cbr\u003ePart II  The Ruined Fort\u003cbr\u003ePart  III  The Water's Edge\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Anuradha Roy \/ Picador India \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153758744944,"sku":"24712","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/24712.jpg?v=1793913643","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/an-atlas-of-impossible-longing","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}