Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel AwardWinner of the Encore AwardShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureLonglisted for the IMPAC PrizeCalcutta, 1967.
Paperback edition of the epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in 1960s Calcutta, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Explores issues of identity, poverty, class and capitalism, with an emotional resonance. '...an outstanding novel: compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce.' Rose Tremain