Silverfish

By Saikat Majumdar

A retired schoolteacher in present-day Calcutta is caught in the labyrinth of rusty bureaucracy and political crime under a communist government. Across a vast ocean of time, a widow leads a life of stark suffering in a wealthy feudal household in 19th century, British-ruled Bengal, at a time when widow-burning has gone out of practice but widow remarriage is far from coming into vogue.As their stories begin to connect, they weave a larger narrative of historical forgetting, of voices that have been pushed out of the nation's memory. And what we are left with is the intriguing tale of two cities: the same geographical space separated by decades of experience and neglect.'This is a book to cherish for a very long time, for its descriptions and evocations as well as for what it tells us about the ebb and flow of human expectation' ---Amit Chaudhuri

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8172237138
• ISBN13: 9788172237134
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"