My Beloved LifeBy: Amitava Kumar 'This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling.' Salman Rushdie 'Kumar's late fathers life breaks like a slowly cresting wave over the sad and joyful ground of this story . . . Always deeply human; the heart is everywhere in these pages . . . beautiful, truthful fiction.' James Wood, The New Yorker A novel that tells the story of modern India, through the life of one apparently ordinary man,