Présentation de l'éditeur
Ambitious, rich and compassionate, this novel anatomises the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family history. It is about many things, including the limits of empathy and the nature of political action. It asks: how do we imagine our place amongst others in the world? Can that be reimagined? And at what cost?
Revue de presse
Masterful … His fierce intelligence and sophisticated storytelling combine to produce
an unforgettable portrait of one family riven by the forces of history and their own desires. -- Patrick Flanery ―
Daily Telegraph
Rich and engrossing … Consistently vivid and well realised, it confidently covers a great deal of varied social terrain. … Unfailingly interesting -- Theo Tait ―
Sunday Times
Very ambitious and very successful. … One of Mukherjee's great gifts is precisely his capacity to imagine the lives of others. …
Neel Mukherjee terrifies and delights us simultaneously -- A S Byatt ―
Guardian
Deeply affecting and ambitious ...
In startling imagery that sears itself into the mind, The Lives of Others excellently exposes the gulf between rich and poor, young and old, tradition and modernity, us and them, showing how acts of empathy are urgently needed to bridge the divides. -- Anita Sethi ―
Observer
Neel Mukherjee has written
an outstanding novel: compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce. ―
Rose Tremain
Biographie de l'auteur
Neel Mukherjee is the author of two previous novels,
A Life Apart (2010), which won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for best novel, and
The Lives of Others (2014), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Encore Prize for best second novel.
