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A Life Apart Book

A Life apart is Neil Mukergee's debut novel and is a story of two halves. Ritwik,is a young gay man in the 1990's who gains an Oxford scholarship from the slums of Calcutta. Despite a childhood of loss, abuse and extreme poverty, Ritwik graduates from Oxford but finds his attempts to stay in the UK lead him into the illegal immigrants underground economy. The second part of the book is an historical narrative about The British Raj and an englishwoman, Maud Gilby, who aims to destroy the barriers between the British and Indian cultures. Ritwik's life joins Mauds in fascinating circumstances, being both incredibly poignant and utterly absorbing. Quite unbelievably brilliant, with style, intelligence and meticulous attention to detail.Read More

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    Ritwik Ghosh, 22 and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But to do so, he must not only relive his entire past but also try and understand it. He moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants.

  • Blackwell

    A Life Apart tells two stories. The first is of Ritwik Ghosh: a story of a young man's escape from a blighted childhood of squalor and abuse in Calcutta to the edge of what he considers to be a new world, in England, where he has a chance to start...

  • 184901101X
  • 9781849011013
  • Neel Mukherjee
  • 28 January 2010
  • Constable
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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