National Book Award FinalistShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death. Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the s, and Udayanmdashcharismatic and impulsivemdashfinds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes.
