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Set in the remote, northeastern hills of India, The point of return revolves around the father-son relationship of a willful, curious boy, Babu, and Doctor Dam, an enigmatic product of British colonial rule and Nehruvian nationalism. Told in reverse chronological order, the novel examines an India where the ideals that brought freedom from colonial rule are beginning to crack under the pressure of new rebellions and conflicts. For Dr. Dam and Babu, this has meant living as strangers in the same home, puzzled and resentful, tied only by blood. As the father grows weary and old and the son...

Intrigued by a disturbing photograph of a woman, a young journalist in Calcutta embarks on a quest to learn the story behind the violent incident captured on film -- a strange odyssey that leads him to a volatile remote corner of India mired in civil strife and sustained by timber, drugs, and guns. Yet the truth he hopes to uncover is as uncertain as the mysterious woman he seeks, smoldering dangerously on the border between illusion and reality.

Die Geschichte einer der mächtigsten und gefährlichsten Ideen der Menschheit

Mukherjee kreiert ein ambitioniertes und faszinierendes Panorama über den Versuch, das menschliche Genom zu entschlüsseln und in unser Erbgut einzugreifen. Es beginnt in einem augustinischen Kloster im Jahr 1856 und führt uns von Darwins Evolutionstheorie über die grausame Eugenik der Nationalsozialisten ins heute und darüber hinaus. Indem er seine eigene Familiengeschichte einwebt, die von tragischen psychischen Erkrankungen geprägt ist, führt Mukherjee uns vor Augen, dass die...

How far would you go to resist oppression? What would you choose to remember, and what to forget?

It is 1932 in occupied Bengal. A young revolutionary prepares to storm a whites-only club in Chittagong, an act of defiance that will end in her taking her own life. The sign above the club reads No Dogs, No Indians.

Decades later, an aspiring intellectual born in post-independence Kolkata is in love with all things British: Shakespeare, cricket, The Beatles. But as he contemplates the past and imagines his children's future, he begins to question his own...