{"product_id":"all-the-lives-we-never-lived-a-novel-9781982100513","title":"All the Lives We Never Lived: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoys mastery of detail ties an intimate domestic drama to national history  offering a portrait of one familys troubles with desire and loss that speaks to the more universal struggles for personal and political freedom. Time  From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter  The Folded Earth  and An Atlas of Impossible Longing  a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present-day about a sons quest to uncover the truth about his mother.  In my childhood  I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German  but in smalltown India in those days  all white foreigners were largely thought of as British.  So begins the story of Myshkin and his mother  Gayatri  a rebellious  alluring artist who abandons parenthood and marriage to follow her primal desire for freedom.  Though freedom may be stirring in the air of India  across the world the Nazis have risen to power in Germany. At this point of crisis  a German artist from Gayatris past seeks her out. His arrival ignites passions she has long been forced to suppress.  What follows is her life as pieced together by her son  a journey that takes him through India and Dutchheld Bali. Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned  he comes to understand his longlost mother  and the connections between strife at home and a wartorn universe overtaken by patriotism.  With her signature precise and poetic (The Independent) writing  Anuradha Roys All the Lives We Never Lived is a spellbinding and emotionally powerful saga about family  identity  and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647067938869,"sku":"ByrdShop_1982100516","price":40.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781982100513.jpg?v=1781687443","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/all-the-lives-we-never-lived-a-novel-9781982100513","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}