A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others
- an intoxicating older cousin a grandmother who weaves stories from the past & a family in London whose lives are intertwined with his When a seemingly random act of violence threatens his vision of the world he begins piecing together events for himself & in the process unravels secrets with devastating consequences Set in Calcutta & London & spanning generations from the outbreak of the Second World War to the late twentieth century The Shadow Lines is a haunting novel from one of the world's greatest writers