She won the Picador-Outlook Non-Fiction Prize in 2004. It was named by World Literature Today as one of the 60 most essential books on modern India and was shortlisted for the Crossword Prize. He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost-and he knows that he must return. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been translated into 15 languages across the world. As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta. Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad her husband searches for its cause as he shapes and reshapes his garden. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. “This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” ( Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim.
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