| ID | 027394 |
| Call Number | 823.92/SWA |
| Title Proper | Latitudes of longing: a novel |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Swarup, Shubhangi |
| Publication | Noida, HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. |
| Description | 331p White and blackspine |
| Note | The novel begins in the depths of the Andaman Sea, and follows geological and emotional faultlines through the Irrawaddy delta and the tourist-trap of Thamel, to end amidst the highest glaciers and passes of the Karakorams. The story sweeps through worlds and times that are inhabited by: a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who talks to them; Lord Goodenough who travels around the furthest reaches of the Raj, giving names to nameless places; a geologist working towards ending futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a superstitious dictator and a mother struggling to get her revolutionary son released; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who turns 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. |
| Standard Number | 9789353020262 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.599(Hb) |
| Classification Number | 823.92 |
| Key Words | India - Fiction ; Nature - Fiction ; IBDP ; Landscapes - Fiction |