Title: Last Burden, The

Author: Chatterjee, Upamanyu

Item Code: ISBN9780571171552

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Edition: 1st ed., Date: 1994, 303 pp., PB

Description: The Last Burden is a fascinating portrait of an Indian middle-class family and the end of the twentieth century. Tracking backwards and forwards in time and space, Chatterjee unfolds a brilliantly subtle and complex picture of this family, writing in a language of unsurpassed richness and power. In this novel author dazzles the reader with the brilliance of his imagination and glory of his prose.