All The Lives We Never Lived: A Novel

  • Author: Anuradha Roy
  • Narrator: Vikas Adam
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 11:22:19
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Synopsis

From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and “one of India’s greatest living authors” (O, The Oprah Magazine), 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.

In 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.

So begins the “gracefully wrought” (Kirkus Reviews) story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who rebels against tradition to follow her artist’s instinct for freedom.

Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri’s town, opening up to her the vision of other possible lives.

What took Myshkin’s mother from India and Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar universe? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between the anguish at home and a war‑torn universe overtaken by patriotism.

Evocative and moving, “this mesmerizing exploration of the darker consequences of freedom, love, and loyalty is an astonishing display of Roy’s literary prowess” (Publishers Weekly).

Chapters

  • 001 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Title

    Duration: 30s
  • 002 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch1

    Duration: 33min
  • 003 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch2

    Duration: 48min
  • 004 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch3

    Duration: 42min
  • 005 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch4

    Duration: 33min
  • 006 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch5

    Duration: 37min
  • 007 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch6

    Duration: 21min
  • 008 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch7

    Duration: 14min
  • 009 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch8

    Duration: 21min
  • 010 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch9

    Duration: 19min
  • 011 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch10

    Duration: 13min
  • 012 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch11

    Duration: 06min
  • 013 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch12

    Duration: 15min
  • 014 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch13

    Duration: 15min
  • 015 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch14

    Duration: 10min
  • 016 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch15

    Duration: 11min
  • 017 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch16

    Duration: 06min
  • 018 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch17

    Duration: 19min
  • 019 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch18

    Duration: 16min
  • 020 AllTheLivesWeNeverLived Ch19

    Duration: 13min
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