Shadow Lines

Name: Shadow Lines
Author: Amitav Ghosh

by Amitav Ghosh

My favorite character in all books is a rail-thin, anxious, despondent, always hungry Bengali would-be intellectual named Tridib in Amitav Ghosh's "Shadow Lines."

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

"My favorite character in all books is a rail-thin, anxious, despondent, always hungry Bengali would-be intellectual named Tridib in Amitav Ghosh's "Shadow Lines.""

By the Book: Siddhartha Mukherjee · nytimes.com