My Beloved Life
“An immersive, moving portrait that steadily gathers intensity, vividness, and surprise.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Kumar unfurls a majestic Indian family saga in successive bildungsroman narratives of a father and daughter . . . A stunning final chapter sheds new light on their stories . . . Kumar excels at blending mysticism and a refined cosmopolitan perspective . . . Readers will find much to savor.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“My Beloved Life is storytelling at its best.”
— Bookpage (starred review)
— “his new novel is always deeply human; the heart is everywhere in these pages.” — James Wood, in the New Yorker
“This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling. A father, a daughter, a crime, a country being born, a migration, another country, a plague. ‘We are in touch with a great astonishing mystery when we put honest words down on paper to register a life and to offer witness. Everything else is ordinary,’ Kumar writes. His novel offers magnificent witness, and is not ordinary but extraordinary.” —Salman Rushdie
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