Description
In 1968 London, an elderly Brahmin named Srinivas lives in the cramped attic of a house he has long rented out, his days shaped by the distance between the life he left behind and the one he endures in exile. Once driven from India by humiliations rooted in racism, he now confronts the slow erosion of belonging as memory becomes both refuge and torment. Kamala Markandaya’s novel traces the quiet tragedies of alienation—how prejudice follows a person across borders, and how “home” can turn into a haunting, unreachable idea. With Markandaya’s incisive, human-centered style, the story explores diaspora, identity, and the emotional cost of displacement, offering a poignant portrait of a man who feels he has nowhere—and no one—to truly return to.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books
Published Apr 19, 2012
328 pages
ISBN: 9780143102526
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Details
First Published
1972
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Nowhere Man by Kamala Markandaya.