House of Caravans
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House of Caravans

A Novel

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eBook - ePub

House of Caravans

A Novel

About this book

A sweeping and richly evocative debut novel of a family bound by memory and legacy, love and loss, and a homeland foreverchanged.

Lahore, British India. 1943. As resentment of colonial rule grows, so do acts of rebellion. Seduced by idealistic visions, at seventeen Chhote Nanu is imprisoned for planting a bomb on behalf of the resistance, leaving his brother Barre to fight for his freedom. But Chhote is consumed not by thoughts of family and liberation, but by the beautiful half-English woman he met before his arrest. Who was she really, and who was the child withher?

Kanpur, India. 2002. Karan Khati is studying in the States when his younger sister, Ila, informs him that their grandfather Barre Nanu has died, and asks that he return home. When he arrives, he finds their estranged mother at odds with their embittered granduncle, Chhote. As hard truths and harmful legacies of familial and religious prejudice resurface, an already-fractured family must learn to heal after being driven apart by years of contentious secrets and unresolved heartache.

Spanning generations, Shilpi Suneja's House of Caravans is a masterfully told and moving portrayal of a family and a nation divided by the lasting consequences ofcolonialism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue | August 1947
  7. August 2002
  8. April 1943
  9. August 2002
  10. September 1943
  11. August 2002
  12. September 1943
  13. August 2002
  14. January 1944
  15. August 2002
  16. September 1944
  17. August 2002
  18. June 1945
  19. February 1946
  20. August 2002
  21. August 1946
  22. August 2002
  23. March 1947
  24. August 2002
  25. September 1947
  26. August 2002
  27. Bibliography
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. About the Author