Latitudes of Longing : : a Novel

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Call Number: Fiction / Swarup, Shubhangi, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Swarup, Shubhangi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Swarup, Shubhangi	4-week checkout	On Shelf

First published in India by HarperCollins Publishers in 2018.
"A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself. A young writer awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in India for this novel, Shubhangi Swarup is a storyteller of extraordinary talent and insight. Richly imaginative and wryly perceptive, Latitudes of Longing offers a soaring view of humanity: our beauty and ugliness, our capacity to harm and love each other, and our mysterious and sacred relationship with nature"-- Provided by publisher.

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