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Dreamt Lives

Anirudh Deshpande

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Description:In the partly mythical 1990s a man called Ravi lives in a suburb of fresh flowers and air called Gurgaon. This is a new, sun washed, sprawling and promising city of the time. One day Ravi’s father, the old Patriarch, decides to die after a long and devastating illness. With the impending death of the Patriarch the memories of Ravi come alive. These memories become the events of this novel in which time travels seamlessly between past and present. Going back and forth in time the memories recounted in this novel are like haphazard balls in a game of skittle. Characters and events tumble down revealing a past with a ferocious honesty rarely found in Indian writings. Unapologetic and brutal in its deconstruction of the conscious and subconscious myths which cloud our individual and collective memories, this novel is an intricate revelation of life, death and sexual intimacy located in a time which is this country’s recent past. The novel begins and ends with the death of the Patriarch. In between this stretches a rich tapestry woven with the lives of the family members of the dying man. Memories connected with the family and its friends move between diverse temporal locales: Hyderabad, Assam, NEFA (now Arunachal), Delhi and Gurgaon. Clearly inspired by the genre of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dreamt Lives asserts that what matters in the end is not what happened but why and how we remember what happened. This novel is powerful experiment with a narrative which exhumes the lives buried with the dead and remembered by the living. It tells us that a writer is essentially a robber of memories.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dreamt Lives. To get started finding Dreamt Lives, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 210

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: SOLAR BOOKS (2018)

Release: 2018

ISBN: 9385289349

Description: In the partly mythical 1990s a man called Ravi lives in a suburb of fresh flowers and air called Gurgaon. This is a new, sun washed, sprawling and promising city of the time. One day Ravi’s father, the old Patriarch, decides to die after a long and devastating illness. With the impending death of the Patriarch the memories of Ravi come alive. These memories become the events of this novel in which time travels seamlessly between past and present. Going back and forth in time the memories recounted in this novel are like haphazard balls in a game of skittle. Characters and events tumble down revealing a past with a ferocious honesty rarely found in Indian writings. Unapologetic and brutal in its deconstruction of the conscious and subconscious myths which cloud our individual and collective memories, this novel is an intricate revelation of life, death and sexual intimacy located in a time which is this country’s recent past. The novel begins and ends with the death of the Patriarch. In between this stretches a rich tapestry woven with the lives of the family members of the dying man. Memories connected with the family and its friends move between diverse temporal locales: Hyderabad, Assam, NEFA (now Arunachal), Delhi and Gurgaon. Clearly inspired by the genre of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dreamt Lives asserts that what matters in the end is not what happened but why and how we remember what happened. This novel is powerful experiment with a narrative which exhumes the lives buried with the dead and remembered by the living. It tells us that a writer is essentially a robber of memories.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dreamt Lives. To get started finding Dreamt Lives, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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