![]() ![]() On the middle floors of the house live the second and third Ghosh generations, three married sons with their children and a sour spinster daughter, and below them, the disgraced widow of a bad-seed fourth son. Prafullanath, once an entrepreneurial genius who built a fortune in the paper-making industry, is now a broken reed, his health ruined, his empire failing after bad investments. The majestic Ghosh family mansion in Calcutta reflects the nation’s entrenched economic hierarchy, with the wealthy patriarch, Prafullanath, and his wife, Charubala, on the top floor and the servant classes and spurned family members at the bottom. ![]() Like a rolling stone, Mukherjee’s nonostentatious epic accrues its weight and mass gradually it's a three-generational family saga that embraces tensions both micro- and macro-cosmic. The evolution of an upper-class Bengali family in the late 1960s reflects India’s political turbulence in this confidently expansive second novel from Mukherjee ( A Life Apart, 2010), which has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. ![]()
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