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House of Caravans - Shilpi Suneja

House of Caravans

A Novel

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Buch | Softcover
328 Seiten
2025
Milkweed Editions (Verlag)
978-1-63955-144-6 (ISBN)
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“House of Caravans is a marvel of a novel.”—Ha Jin, author of Waiting: A Novel

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

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 with her? 

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 of colonialism.

Shilpi Suneja’s writing has been supported by a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship, and a Grub Street Novel Incubator Scholarship. Born in India, her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Guernica, McSweeney’s, Cognoscenti, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. She holds an MA in English from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Boston University, where she was awarded the Saul Bellow Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Prologue

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

 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.4.2025
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Minneapolis
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-63955-144-1 / 1639551441
ISBN-13 978-1-63955-144-6 / 9781639551446
Zustand Neuware
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