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Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Costa Book Awards Best Novel (nominee)
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Neel Mukherjee delivers a powerful, epic story of a family and a nation.
The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up of their five adult children and their respective children, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. Each set of family members occupies a floor of the home, in accordance to their standing within the family. Poisonous rivalries between sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the family business threaten to unravel bonds of kinship as social unrest brews in greater Indian society. This is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: The chasm between the generations, and between those who have and those who have not, has never been wider. The eldest grandchild, Supratik, compelled by his idealism, becomes dangerously involved in extremist political activism - an action that further catalyzes the decay of the Ghosh home.
Ambitious, rich, and compassionate, The Lives of Others anatomizes the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family history at the same time as it questions the nature of political action and the limits of empathy. It is a novel of unflinching power and emotional force.
Genre: Literary Fiction
The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up of their five adult children and their respective children, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. Each set of family members occupies a floor of the home, in accordance to their standing within the family. Poisonous rivalries between sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the family business threaten to unravel bonds of kinship as social unrest brews in greater Indian society. This is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: The chasm between the generations, and between those who have and those who have not, has never been wider. The eldest grandchild, Supratik, compelled by his idealism, becomes dangerously involved in extremist political activism - an action that further catalyzes the decay of the Ghosh home.
Ambitious, rich, and compassionate, The Lives of Others anatomizes the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family history at the same time as it questions the nature of political action and the limits of empathy. It is a novel of unflinching power and emotional force.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Used availability for Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others
Hardback Editions
October 2014 : USA Hardback
May 2014 : UK Hardback
May 2014 : Hardback
2014 : Hardback
Paperback Editions
September 2015 : USA Paperback
2017 : Paperback

Title: The Lives of Others
Author(s): Neel Mukherjee
ISBN: 8184006950 / 978-8184006957
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January 2015 : UK Paperback
May 2014 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
March 2019 : Audio CD
December 2015 : USA MP3 CD
May 2015 : USA Audio edition
October 2014 : USA Audio edition

Title: The Lives of Others
Author(s): Neel Mukherjee
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
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October 2014 : Australia Audio edition

Title: The Lives of Others
Author(s): Neel Mukherjee
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon AU
October 2014 : Canada Audio edition

Title: The Lives of Others
Author(s): Neel Mukherjee
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon CA
October 2014 : UK Audio edition

Title: The Lives of Others
Author(s): Neel Mukherjee
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon UK
Kindle Editions
October 2014 : USA Kindle edition

Title: The Lives of Others
Author(s): Neel Mukherjee
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Availability: Amazon
May 2014 : Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition