{"product_id":"2940170436965","title":"All the Lives We Never Lived: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eSleeping on Jupiter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Folded Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Atlas of Impossible Longing\u003c\/i\u003e, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son¿s quest to uncover the truth about his mother.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small¿town India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, a rebellious, alluring artist who abandons parenthood and marriage to follow her primal desire for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough freedom may be stirring in the air of India, across the world, the Nazis have risen to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, a German artist from Gayatri¿s past seeks her out. His arrival ignites passions she has long been forced to suppress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is her life as pieced together by her son, a journey that takes him through India and Dutch¿held Bali. Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, he comes to understand his long¿lost mother, and the connections between strife at home and a war¿torn universe overtaken by patriotism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith her signature ¿precise and poetic¿ (\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e) writing, Anuradha Roy¿s \u003ci\u003eAll the Lives We Never Lived\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding and emotionally powerful saga about family, identity, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104973406448,"sku":"2940170436965","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170436965_p0.jpg?v=1763801849","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170436965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}