{"product_id":"all-the-lives-we-never-lived","title":"All the Lives We Never Lived","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath\" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    \"The book everyone is talking about for the summer\" Lorraine Candy, Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman\" - so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist's instinct for freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri's town, opening up for her the vision of other possible lives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    What took Myshkin's mother from India to Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar environment? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between anguish at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    Anuradha Roy's enthralling novel is a powerful parable for our times, telling the story of men and women trapped in a dangerous era uncannily similar to the present. Impassioned, elegiac, and gripping, it brims with the same genius that has brought Roy's earlier fiction international renown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    \"One of India's greatest living authors\" - O, The Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    \"Roy's writing is a joy\" - Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Anuradha Roy\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages: 336\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Quercus Publishing\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 19 Jun 2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thryft x Books for Charity","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":50652920447257,"sku":"PR9499.4.R693","price":11.43,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50652920480025,"sku":"PR9499.4.R693","price":9.71,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":50652920512793,"sku":"PR9499.4.R693","price":8.74,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":50652920545561,"sku":"PR9499.4.R693","price":8.26,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/files\/0857058185.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg?v=1793972817","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/all-the-lives-we-never-lived","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}