Download or read book A Life Apart: A Novel written by Neel Mukherjee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant first novel . . . shockingly good." —Rose Tremain, Daily Telegraph Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik’s own goes into free fall.