![]() ![]() Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India's fledgling air force gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo-frames. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India - and he thought that he had a good idea of both. They had all been in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Three young men gazed at him from silver-framed photographs in his grandmother's house, 'beheld but not noticed, as angels are in a frieze full of mortal strugglers'. Winner of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction.ĭescribed as 'a masterpiece' by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. ![]()
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