Clear Light Of DayShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A rich, Chekhovian novel about family and forgiveness from the acclaimed author of Fire on the Mountain (The New Yorker). At the heart of this wonderful novel are the moving relationships between the estranged members of the Das family. Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a womens college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger,

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author of Pym

was abandoned by all his friends save one

and in and out in a simple

wants to possess her

Brushed off by the police and with only a fuzzy memory of the night’s events

Shadi must navigate the wreckage of a family torn apart by tragedy

see: that the simplest desires—a child's for his parents

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'I do believe this book will save lives

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