Latitudes of Longing
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* The phenomenal Indian bestseller * Winner of the Tata Lit Live
Best First Book of the Year Award * 'Intense, lyrical, and
powerful. This is a remarkable debut' Jeet Thayil, author of
Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate Saints In the feverish tropics
of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a fragile rose he
has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom
in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the east coast of
India, he is entranced by Chanda Devi's fierce nature and unusual
gifts, speaking to trees and the ghosts of former
colonialists.These islands, she tells her adoring husband, rest on
a faultline, cracked so deep into the earth that spirits cross the
boundary freely. But it is not this fracture that takes a tragic
bite out of their happiness. With the family riven by heartbreak,
their maid takes the chance to resolve her own past mistakes.
Having abandoned her son many years before, she now traces him to
Myanmar, only to find him in prison - the enemy of a brutal
regime.The faultline she followed over the Indian Ocean now cuts
north into Nepal, where the prisoner's ally, an itinerant drug
dealer, tries to rescue a young woman from the dancing bars of
Kathmandu. It shadows his footsteps into the Karakorum mountains,
where a scientist looks deep into the abyss between India and
Pakistan. It rises all the way to the snow deserts, beyond the
reach of nation or war, where an elder of the village waits for the
return of his true love, bringing all their journeys full circle. A
breathtaking epic, Latitudes of Longing possesses the reader with a
blazing sense of wonder.Shubhangi Swarup's vision goes deeper than
the human stories of the subcontinent to reveal the conscious
history of the earth itself. Tender in every detail, touched with
humour and profound, this is a novel brimming with life, an
original masterpiece.
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