The Golden Son
- Author: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrator: Sunil Malhotra
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 14:00:34
Synopsis
The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family, responsibility, love, honor, tradition, and identity, in which two childhood friends—a young doctor and a newly married bride—must balance the expectations of their culture and their families with the desires of their own hearts.
The first of his family to go to college, Anil Patel, the golden son, carries the weight of tradition and his family’s expectations when he leaves his tiny Indian village to begin a medical residency in Dallas, Texas, at one of the busiest and most competitive hospitals in America. When his father dies, Anil becomes the de facto head of the Patel household and inherits the mantle of arbiter for all of the village’s disputes. But he is uneasy with the custom, uncertain that he has the wisdom and courage demonstrated by his father and grandfather. His doubts are compounded by the difficulties he discovers in adjusting to a new culture and a new job, challenges that will shake his confidence in himself and his abilities.
Back home in India, Anil’s closest childhood friend, Leena, struggles to adapt to her demanding new husband and relatives. Arranged by her parents, the marriage shatters Leena’s romantic hopes, and eventually forces her to make a desperate choice that will hold drastic repercussions for herself and her family. Though Anil and Leena struggle to come to terms with their identities thousands of miles apart, their lives eventually intersect once more—changing them both and the people they love forever.
Tender and bittersweet, The Golden Son illuminates the ambivalence of people caught between past and present, tradition and modernity, duty and choice; the push and pull of living in two cultures, and the painful decisions we must make to find our true selves.
Chapters
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001 The Golden Son
Duration: 35s -
002 Maya the Harelip
Duration: 09min -
003 Part I Chapter 01
Duration: 40min -
004 Chapter 02
Duration: 39min -
005 Chapter 03
Duration: 10min -
006 Chapter 04
Duration: 09min -
007 Chapter 05
Duration: 17min -
008 Chapter 06
Duration: 24min -
009 Chapter 07
Duration: 13min -
010 Chapter 08
Duration: 30min -
011 The Disputed Well
Duration: 14min -
012 Part II Chapter 09
Duration: 09min -
013 The Shared Mango Tree
Duration: 07min -
014 Chapter 10
Duration: 11min -
015 Chapter 11
Duration: 43min -
016 Chapter 12
Duration: 17min -
017 Chapter 13
Duration: 25min -
018 Chapter 14
Duration: 12min -
019 Dilip the Loyal Servant
Duration: 20min -
020 Chapter 15
Duration: 08min