Such a Long Journey Condition:Well Read the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt

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Such a Long Journey Condition:Well Read the novelist Yasunari Kawabata feltIt is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his fathers ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like