Amit Chaudhuri

• Oct-2000
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A newly divorced professor returns home to Calcutta and contends with his disconnection from his son, his parents, and life itself in this atmospheric, lushly descriptive novel of loss and the difficulty of continuing on in spite of it.A year after h...

• Jul-2001
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A Strange and Sublime Address `Funny, delicate, sensuous, evocative . . . made me laugh aloud. The best portrait of India today I've read' Margaret Drabble `This evocation of the routine, quotidian magic of normality strikes me as an extraordinary th...

• Nov-2001
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`Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who only write in English . . . ? More importantly, is it possible to assess properly and appreciate the merits of ...

• Apr-2002
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Amit Chaudhuri's stories range across the astonishing face of the modern Indian subcontinent. From divorcées about to enter into an arranged marriage to the teenaged poet who develops a relationship with a lonely widower, from singing teachers to ho...

• Nov-2004
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In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the...

• Sep-2009
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The award-winning author of A New World now gives us an incantatory novel -- at once plaintive and comic -- about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future. Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal ...

• Feb-2015
• / Literary
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Winner of the UK’s Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle.Afternoon Raag is a book of branching and overlapping stories, a book that like...

• Apr-2015
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From the widely acclaimed writer, a beguiling new novel, at once wistful and ribald, about a day in the life of two Indian men in London--a university student and his bachelor uncle--each coping in his own way with alienation, solitariness, and the v...

• Apr-2015
• / Literary
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Writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri’s elegant debut novel, in which an Indian ten-year-old experiences the entirely distinct experiences of life in Bombay, where his family lives, and Calcutta, where he visits relatives during his summer vacation.Te...

• Feb-2019
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An intensely personal novel about childhood, memory, and history by one of today's most celebrated authors, now available in the US for the first time. Friend of My Youth begins with the novelist Amit Chaudhuri returning to Bombay, the city in whic...

• Apr-2021
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• Sep-2022
• / Thriller
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In this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state.An Indian writer has come to Berlin as a visiting professor. This is his second s...