But fate brings him back to Songarh and back to Bakul. He now works for a builder, is married and has a son. He has severed all ties with Nirmal and the family. And he ends up sending Mukunda to a boarding school in Kolkata.Ī few more years pass. He ends up befriending and then alienating Meera as there is no way for their attraction to come to fruition. He finds it difficult to connect with Bakul. The household dynamic changes when Nirmal comes back home as his application to start an exploration dig in Songarh is approved. Nirmal has found a mother-substitute for Bakul in Meera, who is a widow and a distant relative. Nirmal takes off on far-away archeological expeditions.Ī few years later, the household now has Kanakbala, old and considered mad, Kamal and his wife Manjula, Nirmal’s daughter Bakul and an orphan Mukunda that Nirmal took in after Amulya’s death.
Nirmal is married to Shanti and after a brief period of marital bliss, she passes away in childbirth. Kanakbala makes unlikely alliance with an anglo-Indian lady living across the street after witnessing the murder of Larissa’s husband.Īmulya has two sons – Kamal and Nirmal. While Amulya is fairly content, his wife Kanakbala struggles with the imposed solitude and eventually becomes disturbed enough to spout profanities as she grows older. It is early nineteenth century in the sleepy town of Songarh, where he has built himself a house, a business and a life far away from the bustle of Kolkata. We meet Amulya as he extricates himself from a party where tribal women are dancing the night away. This, however, is not a design for readers looking for entertainment read. The design is slightly more targeted to western readers, but will also appeal to all literature lovers. An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy | Book Cover
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