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A sweeping, cinematic novel about two generations of a family
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"Roy's prose does not hit a single wrong note: its restrained beauty sings off the page." --Neel Mukherjee, "Time Magazine"
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"He scrutinised my palm for long minutes, and I looked with him, as if I had never seen it before. It was creased, untidy, crowded with crosses and wild strokes slashing it in two. I have seen palms that have scarcely any lines. Mine was not one of them, far from it. I waited as if for a verdict.
`A veritable atlas,' he said, his fingers tracing the longer lines on my palm. `What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition!'
`I wanted to... I mean I was hoping...'
`Want, want, hope, hope,' the astrologer parroted, `this is what your palm says too, moshai, your palm is nothing but an atlas of impossible longings.' He poked my lifeline and said, `Nothing but longing.'"
This is a love story - as passionate as it is poignant - about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else.
`A veritable atlas,' he said, his fingers tracing the longer lines on my palm. `What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition!'
`I wanted to... I mean I was hoping...'
`Want, want, hope, hope,' the astrologer parroted, `this is what your palm says too, moshai, your palm is nothing but an atlas of impossible longings.' He poked my lifeline and said, `Nothing but longing.'"
This is a love story - as passionate as it is poignant - about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0330456784
- ISBN 13 9780330456784
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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