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Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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. A young man arrives in Oxford and finds himself involved in relationships with two women, neither of which is destined for fulfillment. Interspersed between glimpses of students' lives and friendships are fragmentary memories of the narrator's parents, the death of his music teacher,...
2) Freedom song
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, a graceful depiction of middle-class Calcutta, seen through the lives of two interlinked families living in the city during the 1990s. Freedom Song, set in in 1993, is about the city and two families who live there. The first consists of a couple, Khuku and her husband Shib; their son has been living for a few years in America. Khuku's old friend Mini is visiting them while she recuperates from...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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. A ten-year-old boy, Sandeep, visits, with his mother, his maternal uncle's house in Calcutta for his summer vacation; and a year and a half later visits it again. Here, in Calcutta, he plunges into a life...
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