The Elsewhereans – Jeet Thayil

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A wonderfully rich evocation of the era of decolonization and non-alignment, and the peripatetic lives and multiple perspectives that it made possible.-AMITAV GHOSH Jeet Thayils The Elsewhereans is a luminous, unclassifiable novel that melds fiction, travelogue, memoir, a ghost story, a family saga, photographs and much else into a tale that unfolds across continents and decades. From the backwaters of Kerala to the streets of Bombay, Hong Kong, and beyond, Thayil maps the restless lives of those shaped by exile-both the ones who leave and the ones left behind. A hypnotic meditation on migration, loss, and the fragile threads of identity from one of the most brilliant voices in contemporary literature, The Elsewhereans is a novel of retrieval and reinvention-an elegy for vanished worlds, and a reckoning with the histories we inherit.