NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE APPLIED IN "THE SHADOW LINES'' BY AMITAV GHOSH
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE APPLIED IN "THE SHADOW LINES'' BY AMITAV GHOSH Amitav Ghosh follows the magic realism technique which explores a non-chronological presentation of events . It is remarkable how in " The Shadow Lines " Ghosh presents The multi-layered experiences of varied people in diverse chronotopes which ultimately appear to converge into a single text . As Marquez does in the " Chronicle of a Death Foretold " , Amitav Ghosh uses memory and imagination to interrogate space , time , persona , and overcome the isolability of people as well as distance between spaces and times , which appear both fluid and concrete . However , the story line juxtaposes the lives of two different yet intertwined families , one Indian , one English , and uses this structure to question the boundaries between people and the geographical settings they inhabit . The story which shifts from Calcutta to London to Dhaka is told through...