![]() ![]() The story was adapted for the stage by the U.K.’s Tamasha Theatre Company in 20, and the BBC recently dramatized the book for a radio play that was released in 2021.Įxploratory casting for the series has already begun in the U.K. ![]() It was selected by Oprah’s Book Club - which was, at the time in 2001, a rare feat for a Canadian novel - and also won the 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Overall. Since its publication, the book has earned a reputation as one of the foremost novels about India post-Independence. The story - which centers on a rich widow, two tailors and a young student from vastly different parts of Indian society whose lives intersect in a tiny apartment - traverses the political landscape in India from the country’s independence in 1947 through to the 21-month state of emergency called by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi between 19. ![]()
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