Description
Spanning more than two and a half millennia, this sweeping historical novel follows four recurring lives—Gautam, Champa, Kamal, and Cyril—as their stories echo across centuries of belief, love, and upheaval. Moving through parables, legends, dreams, diaries, and letters, the narrative builds a luminous tapestry of how personal desire and collective history continually reshape one another. At its heart, the book explores the fluidity of identity in South Asia, tracing the intersections of Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim worlds while asking what endures when empires rise and fall. Rendered in Qurratulain Hyder’s distinctive, magisterial style, it is both an epic of time and a deeply human meditation on memory, faith, and the fires that drive civilizations forward.
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paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Jan 1, 2003
428 pages
ISBN: 9780811215336
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First Published
2003
Language
eng
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