Shadow lines

This novel by Amitav ghosh set in a period of post partition Bengal switches back and forth in time and places and is mainly interweaving of reminiscence, fiction and fact. It earned him the Sahitya Academy award. Ghosh indirectly talks about the shadows (or secrets) we want to keep from others and the shadows that we cast (or reflection) and want to show to other people..both may or not be the accurate reflection of us. The nonlinear time switching reminded me of the William Faulkner novel 'The Sound and the Fury' I read back in college.