{"product_id":"my-beloved-life-1","title":"My Beloved Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling.' – Salman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Kumar's late father’s life breaks like a slowly cresting wave over the sad and joyful ground of this story . . . Always deeply human; the heart is everywhere in these pages . . . beautiful, truthful fiction.' –\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eJames Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel that tells the story of modern India, through the life of one apparently ordinary man, from the death of Gandhi to the rise of Modi.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He meets the sherpa who first summited Everest. He befriends poets and politicians. He becomes a historian. And he has a daughter, Jugnu, a television journalist with a career in the United States – whose perspective sheds its own light on his story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the while, currents of huge change sweep across India – from Independence to Partition, Gandhi to Modi, the Mahabharata to Somerset Maugham, cholera to COVID – and buffet both Jadu and Jugnu's lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmitava Kumar's remarkable \u003ci\u003eMy Beloved Life\u003c\/i\u003e explores how we tell stories and write history, how the lives of individuals play out against the background of historical change, and how no single life is without consequence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A novel of vaulting ambition and tenderness, about how histories, both personal and national, are built, refracted and revised.' – Katie Kitamura, author of \u003ci\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244691706200,"sku":"9781035013715","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781035013715.jpg?v=1771576235","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-beloved-life-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}