My Beloved Life

by Amitava Kumar

An absorbing, exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn

Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935 in a village near George Orwell's birthplace, Jadu's mother, while pregnant with him, nearly dies from a cobra bite. When we see Jadu again, he is in college, meeting the Sherpa who first summited Everest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593536061
• ISBN13: 9780593536063
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"