A Life Incomplete

All that sustains Kuldeep Singh through his dark days in jail, where he is serving a term for participating in anti-British agitations, are thoughts of going home to his wife. When he returns, he finds out that his wife has died, leaving behind their infant child. As Kuldeep s world collapses around him, he negotiates the divergent pulls exerted by people around a holy man who advocates renunciation; his childhood friend Saroj, who has always loved him; and the tempestuous Prakash who hides an unsavoury past.

Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author Nanak Singh draws on personal experiences to create this compelling portrait of Punjab in the 1920s. 

Originally published in Punjabi in 1940, A Life Incomplete is an intense meditation on the choices people make and the consequences these may have.