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03306aam a2200589 i 4500 001 A9ADBF8638A911ED914067003BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220920010102 008 190531s2018 ii a 000 f eng d 010 $a 2019328702 020 $a 9353450411 020 $a 9789353450410 020 $a 9789386228703 020 $a 938622870X 035 $a (OCoLC)1032029854 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCQ $d OLC $d OCLCF $d DCK $d CLU $d OCL $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lcode $a lcode 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a PR9499.4.B34 $b H34 2018 082 04 $a 823.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Bagchi, Amitabha, $e author. 245 10 $a Half the night is gone / $c Amitabha Bagchi. 260 $a New Delhi : $b Juggernaut Books, $c 2018. 300 $a 301 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a The celebrated Hindi novelist Vishwanath is heartbroken by the recent loss of his son in a car accident. The tragedy breaks a long dry spell and spurs him to write a novel set in the household of Lala Motichand in the early decades of the twentieth century. It follows the lives of the wealthy lala and his three sons: self-confident Dinanath, the true heir to Motichand's mercantile temperament; lonely Diwanchand, uninterested in business and steeped in poetry; and illegitimate Makhan Lal, a Marx-loving schoolteacher relegated to the periphery of his father's life. And in an illuminating act of self-reflection, Vishwanath, the son of a cook for a rich sethji, also tells the story of the lala's personal servant, Mange Ram, and his son, Parsadi. Fatherhood, brotherhood and childhood, love, loyalty and poetry all come to the fore as sons and servants await the lala's oncoming demise, against the devotional landscape of the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas. By writing about mortality and family, Vishwanath confronts the wreckage of his own life while seeking to make sense of the new India that comes into being in the first half of the twentieth century. Spellbinding and penetrating, Half the Night Is Gone raises questions of religion, literature and society that speak to our fractured times. 500 $a Novel. 650 0 $a Novelists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-realization $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mortality $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Religion $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Indic fiction (English) 650 7 $a Self-realization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111892 650 7 $a Religion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093763 650 7 $a Novelists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01039684 650 7 $a Mortality. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026502 650 7 $a Indic fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00970135 650 7 $a Fathers and sons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00921899 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 651 0 $a India $v Fiction. 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 655 0 $a Indic fiction (English) 655 4 $a Indic fiction. 655 7 $a novels. $2 aat $0 (CStmoGRI)aatgf300202580 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020831.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A9ADBF8638A911ED914067003BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search