Half The Night Is Gone

Amitabha Bagchi

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The celebrated Hindi novelist Vishwanath is heartbroken by the recent loss of his son in an accident. The tragedy spurs him to write a novel set in the household of Lala Gopichand. It follows the lives of the wealthy lama and his three sons: Self-confident Dinanath, the true heir to Gopichand’s mercantile temperament, lonely Devachan, uninterested in business and steeped in poetry; and illegitimate Machan Lal, a Marx-loving schoolteacher kept to the periphery of his father’s life.

In an illuminating act of self-reflection, Vishwanath, the son of a cook for a rich shoji, also tells the story of the lama’s personal servant, Mange Ram and his son, Parsed. Fatherhood, brotherhood and childhood, love, loyalty and poetry all come to the fore as sons and servants await the lama’s death. By writing about mortality and family, Vishwanath confronts the wreckage of his own life while seeking to make sense of the new India that came into being after independence. Spellbinding and penetrating, Half the Night Is Gone raises questions of religion, literature and society that speak to our fractured times.

Language English
ISBN-10 938622870X
ISBN-13 9789386228703
No of pages 301
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Book Publisher Juggernaut
Published Date 30 Jun 2018

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