The Shadow Lines Author:Amitav Ghosh Out of a miraculously intricate web of memories, relationships and images Amitav Ghosh builds an intensely vivid and moving story. Its focus is the meaning of political freedom in the modern world and the force of nationalism, the Shadow Line we draw between people and nations, which is both an absurd illusion and a source of terrifying violenc... more »e, one of the great themes of our times. Amitav Ghosh's vision is broad, his voice compelling, and his achievement in this sweeping and ambitious novel quite remarkable.« less