| Description |
297 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her life to veer in an unexpected direction. Another author, an economist, describes how the gift of a cow to an impoverished family on the West Bengal-Bangladesh border sets them on a startling path to tragedy. Together, these connected narratives raise the question: How free are we really to make our own choices? In a scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, Neel Mukherjee confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life. |
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London (England) -- Fiction.
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Animal welfare -- Fiction.
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Refugees -- Fiction.
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Women college teachers -- Fiction.
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Free will and determinism -- Fiction.
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Authors -- Fiction.
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Book editors -- Fiction.
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Gay men -- Family relationships -- United States -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Social problem fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Novels.
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Gay fiction.
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| ISBN |
1324075015 |
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9781324075011 |
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