The Copper Sky

About the Book Landon 1950s Naive Amar Des arrives study the LSE The release from the war-torn threat a unprecedented pleasure-seeking which swept over hidebound English society. Gone was Victorian prudery British rulers exported stumbles over coupled bodies walk through Hyde Park. has to struggle with the new mores, the pervading permissiveness.

At the same he thrills to intellectual freedom which senses all around, the challenge ideas, the encouragement question orthodoxy. Casting a shadow over this, though, are spills over from time to time.

Along way, lonely offers her ambiguous friendship, an attractive single her love, manipulative bed and focus. How the autonomy confront with?

About the Author Retiring from multinational and a subsequent HR consultancy, Abhijit Gupta submitted to lifelong desire to write, creating novel influenced the eventful years getting his second degree the London School Economics, having obtained his first degree from Stephens College, Delhi. In those years he found a new intellectual and emotional liberation grew love also captained Fencing Team.

A passion for travel has taken him and his wife all over the world. Unable follow tourist itineraries, his idea bliss is to sit with wine in tree-shaded square in Barcelona and watch world by. wander through beloved forests and India. Business respectively.

He loves to paint, write and read, often while listening music. That is, when the boisterous grandchildren indulge his passion.

Foreword I doubt whether there is any author who can claim that they I have not allowed their experiences to influence their writings. I certainly can't. But, this is not an autobiographical novel. It is a work of fiction.

If anybody feels they recognise themselves in the host of characters who make their appearance, I would urge them to read further and see that this is a work of fiction. If they see resemblances it is because fragments have been borrowed from personalities to give characters verisimilitude. If anything, this reflects the indelible impression they have made by the strength of their personality.

This is not a historical or political treatise. What appears is what the young enquiring mind of the protagonist has garnered from all he has heard and read and then processed in his own mind. People may not agree with the views expressed, but that is their privilege and right. The same right of freedom I exercise as an author.

Not many people of this generation realise the bitterness that the pre-Independence generation carried within them as a result of their subject status under the British. Maybe this will help open a few eyes to the plight of the current generation of subjects across the world today.

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