{"product_id":"all-the-lives-we-never-lived","title":"All the Lives We Never Lived","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[Roy's] mastery of detail ties an intimate domestic drama to national history, offering a portrait of one family's troubles with desire and loss that speaks to the more universal struggles for personal and political freedom.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eSleeping on Jupiter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Folded Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Atlas of Impossible Longing\u003c\/i\u003e, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present-day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGerman, but in small-town India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough 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 Gayatri's past seeks her out. His arrival ignites passions she has long been forced to suppress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat follows is her life as pieced together by her son, a journey that takes him through India and Dutch-held Bali. Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, he comes to understand his long-lost mother, and the connections between strife at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her signature \"precise and poetic\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e) writing, Anuradha Roy's \u003ci\u003eAll the Lives We Never Lived\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding and emotionally powerful saga about family, identity, and love.","brand":"Anuradha Roy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46336564920556,"sku":"9781982100520","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781982100520.jpg?v=1743686082","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/all-the-lives-we-never-lived","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}