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                   BOOK REVIEW       By Madhurim Gupta

Shadow Lines 
by Amitav Ghosh 

The novel ends with an English girl telling the story of an Indian boy who died in Bangladesh..or probably that's the way it begins ! Shadow Lines written by Amitav Ghosh, a novelist who was a serious contender for the last Eurasia Commonwealth Awards has written this book with the expertise of a best-selling novelist. A gripping piece because of the style adopted by Ghosh, which defies the bounds of time and interconnects events through maps and mirrors. Sounds confusing?Actually, the novel is just a story about a boy raised in the suburbs of Calcutta trying to compare himself to his elusive globe-trotting relatives, a grandmother who considered being a terrorist in her college days and an uncle (the Indian who was in Bangladesh at the wrong time) gifted with a WILD imagination. A brilliant book with just the hint of avant-garde literature…