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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">A retired schoolteacher in present-day
Calcutta is caught in the labyrinth of rusty bureaucracy and political crime
under a communist government. Across a vast ocean of time, a widow leads a life
of stark suffering in a wealthy feudal household in 19th century, British-ruled
Bengal, at a time when widow-burning has gone out of practice but the widow
remarriage is far from coming into vogue.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">As their stories begin to connect, they
weave a larger narrative of historical forgetting, of voices that have been
pushed out of the nation^s memory. And what we are left with is the intriguing
tale of two cities: the same geographical space separated by decades of
experience and neglect.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">^This is a book to cherish for a very
long time, for its descriptions and evocations as well as for what it tells us
about the ebb and flow of human expectation^ ---Amit Chaudhuri</span></p>

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codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Saikat
Majumdar </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">was born in Calcutta. He is an Indian
novelist, critic and academic. He is an author of three novels which include:
Silverfish, The Firebird and The Scent of God. He lives in the San Francisco
Bay Area.</span></p>

