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Half the Night Is Gone by Amitabha Bagchi is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Half the Night Is Gone about?

Four months ago now, although it seems like just the other day, when I saw you outside the electric crematorium, you wore a grey sweater inside the tweed jacket your tailor had made for you from the cloth I had bought you when I was in Himachal writing Iske Liye . There was a cold wind blowing down from that same Himachal that day. It had snowed there the day before. You said something. I think you said: ‘I knew you would choose the electric one.’ Or maybe you said: ‘I didn’t know it was at the electric one.’ And I said something about how electricity was the purest form of fire, that it was the culmination of the process of domestication of fire that began in prehistoric times. You did not say anything to this but I think you were worried I had lost my mind, and maybe you worried about whether I had any more writing left in me. Perhaps you thought: That’s okay, even if he can’t produce anything new, at least the old books continue to sell. No, I am being unfair to you. You would never think something like that. But it is true, the old books do continue to sell.---

Who reads Half the Night Is Gone?

Author

Amitabha Bagchi

Publisher

Juggernaut

Published

2020

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction