PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Neel Mukherjee was born in Calcutta. His first novel, A Life Apart (2010), won the Vodafone-Crossword Award in India, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction, and was shortlisted for the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. This is his second novel. He lives in London.
Neel Mukherjee has written an outstanding novel: compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce. Rose Tremain A 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 ferocious, unsparing and brutally honest. Anita Desai The Lives of Others is searing, savage and deeply moving: an unforgettably vivid picture of a time of turmoil. Amitav Ghosh (www.amitavghosh.com/blog) Very ambitious and very successful. . One of Mukherjee's great gifts is precisely his capacity to imagine the lives of others. . Neel Mukherjee terrifies and delights us simultaneously -- A S Byatt Guardian Masterful . His fierce intelligence and sophisticated storytelling combine to produce an unforgettable portrait of one family riven by the forces of history and their own desires. -- Patrick Flanery Daily Telegraph
