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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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue | August 1947
- August 2002
- April 1943
- August 2002
- September 1943
- August 2002
- September 1943
- August 2002
- January 1944
- August 2002
- September 1944
- August 2002
- June 1945
- February 1946
- August 2002
- August 1946
- August 2002
- March 1947
- August 2002
- September 1947
- August 2002
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author