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The Lives of Others. Neel Mukherjee. Random House, - Fiction - pages /5(6). The Lives of Others. Author:Neel Mukherjee. Fiction Cultural India. A State of Freedom. Author:Neel Mukherjee. Author:Neel Mukherjee. Fiction Cultural India. Search. Hot Books. 1. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 4. In exploring “the hidden inner cogs and wheels of the lives of others,” the Indian novelist Neel Mukherjee has written a book about the troubled process of social change at its most extreme — and won himself the Man Booker Prize for in the process. “What could be more interesting than other people’s lives?” he asks.4/5().

― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others. 1 likes. Like "People talk of rage as something fluid; it boils, flows, spills over, scalds. For her, it is not any of these things. Instead it is a vast, frozen sea, solid as rock, unthawable. She has never seen the sea, but she knows it wraps around three-quarters of the world. Claiming that you can't be an Indian writer without politics somehow seeping into your work, Neel Mukherjee makes no bones about his novel, The Lives Of Others, being a deeply political www.doorway.rujee expertly fuses his political ambitions into his narrative plots. Neel Mukherjee's new novel The Lives of Others is an ambitious blend of family saga and political turbulence set in India during the second half of the s.. The narrative is broad ranging, oscillating between the quotidien of the Ghosh family in their sprawling Calcutta home and the villages and rice fields of western Bengal where Communist guerrillas hide in the jungle plotting insurrection.

One of Mukherjee's great gifts is precisely his capacity to imagine the lives of others. He can move from inside one head to inside another in a conversation or conflict and take the reader with. The Lives of Others. Neel Mukherjee. Random House, - Fiction - pages. A novel of unflinching power and emotional force, The Lives of Other by Neel Mukherjee introduces you to the Ghosh family, who have earned their name and fame by owning the Papermaking busine A family saga set between pre-independence Calcutta, plagued by colonialism, famine and the aftershocks of World War II, and the Calcutta of the s, where students are embracing Marx, the Grateful Dead, and heroin.