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. 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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