01867cam a2200373 i 4500 1171998647 TxGeo 20240314120000.0 230421s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023018114 9780593536063 hbk. 0593536061 hbk. (OCoLC)1380390107 TxGeo rda Kumar, Amitava, 1963-, author. My beloved life : a novel / Amitava Kumar. First edition. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. 331 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-338). "Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He becomes a historian. He has a daughter, Jugnu, who grows up to be a television journalist and then escapes her marriage for a career in the United States. And he sees currents of huge change sweep across India--from Independence to Partition, Gandhi to Modi, the Mahabharata to Somerset Maugham--in ways that Jadu is both apart from and can't help but represent."-- Provided by publisher. 20240322. Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction. Self-realization Fiction. Men Fiction. Women Fiction. India History 20th century Fiction. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. QS5