All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy

War, nationalism, and trees shape lives in unforeseeable ways in this novel about a family and a country struggling with enormous transformations.

‘In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman’ – so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist’s instinct for freedom.

The International Dublin Literary Award 2020, formerly the IMPAC award, is sponsored by Dublin City Council award. The award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. All the Lives We Never Live d has been selected from a long list of 156 novels submitted by library systems in 119 cities in 40 countries.