What is the relationship between The Rat and the Boss's secretary? Was The Rat trying to kill him (with the explosion) at the end? I am very confused about that part.ģ.WHAT THE HELL IS THE SHEEP MAN.The Rat says it was him, but why in that form? Why not just take his human form. The shift in the novel from uneven to assured takes place at the start of Part II when Ritwik, faced with the expiry of his UK visa, moves to London and becomes caretaker to the elderly Anne. Also they reference The Sheep having a long term plan that I interpreted as an evil one. Does it represent evil/the devil? It seems so, especially with The Rat killing himself just to rid himself of the sheep. Read 98 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Afterwards they no longer have the drive that they had while inhabited by the sheep. He recently received an Oxford University scholarship for his further education. In Calcutta, India, his parents are laid to rest. When it comes to the period, the novel takes place in the 1990s. It clearly affects the will of all the characters. Indian author Neel Mukherjee’s debutant Novel, A Life Apart revolves around the story of Ritwik Ghosh, a young guy. at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and graduated with an M.A. He studied English at Jadavpur University and then attended University College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he studied English and graduated in 1992. I did some googling around in regards to A Wild Sheep Chase but didn't really find much in the way of explanations. Mukherjee was educated at Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata. This is my second Murakami book, but my first was his memoir, which I thought was phenomenal. So maybe some of you can help explain it. 1, 2014 The evolution of an upper-class Bengali family in the late 1960s reflects India’s political turbulence in this confidently expansive second novel from Mukherjee (A Life Apart, 2010), which has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

I just finished A Wild Sheep Chase and it feels like there is something I am missing.

A life apart by neel mukherjee