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Start giftingThe Dream Builders
A Novel
Narrator
Soneela Nankani
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Length
13 hours 56 minutes
Language
English
After living in the United States for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world.
The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing―and no one―here is as it appears. Ultimately, it will take an unexpected tragic event for Maneka and those around her to finally understand just how fragile life is in this city built on aspirations.
Written from the perspectives of ten different characters, Oindrila Mukherjee’s incisive debut novel explores class divisions, gender roles, and stories of survival within a society that is constantly changing and becoming increasingly Americanized.
It is a story about India today and people impacted by globalization everywhere: a tale of ambition, longing, and bitter loss that asks what it really costs to try and build a dream.
Oindrila Mukherjee grew up in Kolkata, India, and now resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University.
Soneela Nankani is an award-winning narrator with over three hundred titles in many different genres including Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction. She has garnered sixteen Earphones Awards, nominations for Audie and SOVAS awards, and was recently awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Honor. Her audiobooks have been featured in Best Audiobooks lists by AudioFile magazine and the Washington Post, among others. In her spare time, she loves to read (yes, really), learn languages, try new recipes, and travel. She lives in the DC area with her husband and two mischievous daughters.
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Reviews
“The Dream Builders is such an impressive feat of storytelling, a novel that examines the constraints of class, of gender, of history.”
“Funny, moving, and often deliciously cynical.”
“A multitude of voices and visions…come together to create an astonishing, and astonishingly accurate, portrait of contemporary India.”
“A novel of epic proportions…[with] characters who are often real enough to remind us of ourselves, even as they betray one another, even as they betray themselves.”
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