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|author=Neel Mukherjee
|title=The Lives of Others
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= '''SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014'''
Many generations of the Ghosh family live together in a single house in 1960's Calcutta, albeit a very big single house. Life may be materially comfortable but not easy. Jealousy, in-fighting, the struggle to keep the family business going (and, for the younger family members, the struggle to lead the life they'd like) causes more than the odd sleepless night. Son Supratik has succeeded in choosing a different path though. He's tired of the endless consumption and acquisition and leaves home to follow his Marxist beliefs, exchanging family living for discomfort and danger.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186291</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Problems with People
|summary=Maggie sits in an elderly persons' care home tgryig to exist through the ever tightening grip of dementia. Her son, Tom, visits trying to jog her memory but she doesn't even recognise him. To Maggie, Tom is 'Michael' a name that means nothing to a son getting more desperate to break through to his mother once again. However there was once a Michael, in a life that bubbles with secrets that even Tom doesn't know; for once, long ago, Maggie was young.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773770</amazonuk>
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