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|author=Neel Mukherjee
|title=A Life Apart
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ritwik Ghosh grows up in India in the 1970's, one of two children of an abusive mother. In the 1990's, finally escaping the country after her death, he comes to England to study at Oxford, then moves to London. There, he looks after 86 year old Anne Cameron in exchange for free accommodation, while looking for work, and for sexual encounters with other men. He also writes a novel - the extended story of Miss Gilby, a character in Rabindranath Tagore's novel Ghare Baire. Miss Gilby becomes English teacher to Bimala, the wife of a minor official in 1900's Bengal just before the Partition of the province.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184901101X</amazonuk>
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