{"product_id":"the-lives-of-others-9780099554486","title":"The Lives of Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeel Mukherjee\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous novels, \u003ci\u003eA Life Apart\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), which won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for best novel, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Others\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Encore Prize for best second novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMasterful\u003c\/b\u003e … His fierce intelligence and sophisticated storytelling combine to produce \u003cb\u003ean unforgettable portrait of one family riven by the forces of history and their own desires\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Patrick Flanery * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRich and engrossing\u003c\/b\u003e … Consistently vivid and well realised, it confidently covers a great deal of varied social terrain. … Unfailingly interesting -- Theo Tait * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVery ambitious and very successful.\u003c\/b\u003e … One of Mukherjee's great gifts is precisely his capacity to imagine the lives of others. … \u003cb\u003eNeel Mukherjee terrifies and delights us simultaneously\u003c\/b\u003e -- A S Byatt * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeeply affecting\u003c\/b\u003e and ambitious ... \u003cb\u003eIn startling imagery that sears itself into the mind, \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Others\u003c\/i\u003e excellently exposes the gulf between rich and poor, young and old, tradition and modernity\u003c\/b\u003e, us and them, showing how acts of empathy are urgently needed to bridge the divides. -- Anita Sethi * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eNeel Mukherjee has written \u003cb\u003ean outstanding novel:  compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce\u003c\/b\u003e. * Rose Tremain *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFull of acute, often uncomfortable and angry, observations, \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Others \u003c\/i\u003eis a picture of a family in all its disunity, and beyond it a city and country, on the brink of disaster.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Seth-ian narrative feast\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewith dishes to spare\u003c\/b\u003e ... a graphic reminder that the bourgeois Indian culture western readers so readily idealize is sustained at terrible human cost -- Patrick Gale * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExpansive and often brilliant… Mukherjee spares the reader nothing…yet his command of storytelling is so astounding, he draws the reader into places they would prefer not to look\u003c\/b\u003e -- Claire Allfree * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eThe writing is \u003cb\u003eunfailingly beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e … Resembles a tone poem in its dazzling orchestration of the crescendo of domestic racket. \u003cb\u003eHis eye is as acute as his ear: the physicality of people and objects is delineated with a hyper-aesthetic vividness\u003c\/b\u003e …. -- Jane Shilling * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eNeel Mukherjee has given us a picture of India that cuts through history, social classes and regions but centers on a \u003ci\u003enouveau pauvre \u003c\/i\u003efamily.  \u003cb\u003eEvery scene is rendered with a Tolstoyan clarity and compassion\u003c\/b\u003e. * Edmund White *\u003cbr\u003eA devastating portrayal of a decadent society and the inevitably violent uprising against it, in the tradition of such politically charged Indian literature as the work of Prem Chand, Manto and Mulk Raj Anand. It is\u003cb\u003e ferocious, unsparing and brutally honest\u003c\/b\u003e. * Anita Desai *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alexander Gilmour * FT *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerful\u003c\/b\u003e… Mukherjee’s depiction of the tangled system…that develops when so many members of a family live under one roof is superb… \u003cb\u003eIn clear yet lyrical prose, Mukherjee carefully explores not just what it means to be part of a family, but what it means to be part of an unequal society… It’s impossible not to be utterly engaged by this intelligent and moving epic\u003c\/b\u003e -- Anna Carey * Sunday Business Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompelling, affecting, intelligent and surprising\u003c\/b\u003e… Bold and striking… Worked out with precision and gracefulness… Ambitious and eloquent, and in forgoing exoticism captures genuine humanity -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Others\u003c\/i\u003e is searing, savage and deeply moving: an unforgettably vivid picture of a time of turmoil\u003c\/b\u003e. * Amitav Ghosh (www.amitavghosh.com\/blog) *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732293202263,"sku":"9780099554486","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099554486.jpg?v=1719996296","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-lives-of-others-9780099554486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}