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D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference': Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Presentby Tom Paulin, Amit ChaudhuriISBN 0199260524 (0-19-926052-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Freedom Songby Amit ChaudhuriISBN 0330344234 (0-330-34423-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom Song : Three Novels'Book summary:Amit Chaudhuri's first book to be published in the United States comprises three short novels and is a masterpiece of the telling detail--in one paragraph he accomplishes what might take other writers entire volumes. Consider, for example, this description of family life in "A Strange and Sublime Address":
Monday morning came like a fever. Chhotomama would be at the dining-table, eating a rapid meal of dal, fish, and rice, trying to avoid chewing as much of it as possible before he rushed to work. Then he would rush upstairs where a pair of polished black shoes would be waiting for him like a long-promised gift. He would spend five minutes persuading his feet to enter the shoes, or the shoes to swallow his feet.... Over and over again he would shout "I'm late!" in the classic manner of the man crying "Fire!" or "Timber!" or "Eureka!" while Saraswati and Mamima scuttled around him like frightened birds.
The plot of "A Strange and Sublime Address" is slight--a young boy spends his summer with relatives in Calcutta--and consists mainly of a series of episodes strung together. But the characters are so lovingly limned and the places so intimately described that not even a one-way ticket to India could rival Chaudhuri's rendering.He works similar magic on Oxford and Bombay in the second novel, "Afternoon Raag." Again, the story is almost inconsequential: a young Indian student at Oxford must choose between two women. What's really important here, however, are the character's memories of his music teacher back in Bombay; his mother's morning rituals; his father clipping his fingernails onto an old copy of The Times of India. Likewise, in the third novel, "Freedom Song," plot takes a back seat to the delicate workings of familial relationships as two clans attempt to marry off a "problem" relative. What makes these three short novels so satisfying is the fact that the author's remarkable sensibility is more than matched by his literary skillfulness. For readers in love with language, Freedom Song is the answer to a prayer. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Freedom Song: ISBN 0330344242 (0-330-34424-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Freedom Song: ISBN 0330391607 (0-330-39160-7)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Freedom Song : Three Novels: ISBN 0375404279 (0-375-40427-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Freedom Song : Three Novels: ISBN 0330344234 (0-330-34423-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
- Freedom Song: ISBN 0330344242 (0-330-34424-2)
A New World : A Novelby Amit ChaudhuriISBN 0330351060 (0-330-35106-0)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A New World : A Novel'Book summary:A relatively inconsequential plot provides the armature for Amit Chaudhuri's A New World: Jayojit Chatterjee, a recently divorced economics professor at an American college, returns home to Calcutta for a two-month holiday with his 7-year-old son, Bonny. Here he takes up residence in his parents' flat in a modern, characterless building. At once a son and a father, at home and displaced, he deals with the minutiae of each day and thinks about his failed marriage, his parents' health, his mother's cooking, his own weight gain, the neighbors, the weather, and the hired help.
Notable for the precision of his observations, Chaudhuri recounts small telling moments of daily life with a mannerliness that avoids looking squarely at the obvious dysfunction in the Chatterjee household, while at the same time obliquely illuminating the melancholy that pervades it. Once part of colonial India's military, Jayojit's now retired parents live lives of reduced circumstances--the rhythm of their days dictated by heat, a morning walk, a trip to the bank, the daily suspense over whether the maid will appear. Proud, affectionate, but inarticulate, they express their love through offers of food and financial news. Uncomplaining, Jayojit and Bonny endure the climate and ennui, and in a marginal, temporary way participate in a world that is no longer theirs. Chaudhuri's writing, like his characters, is admirable in its restraint, as in this passage in which he describes Jayojit's first morning in Calcutta:
Jayojit had woken up late, at eleven. He had had a bath, and then changed into a shirt and shorts. Wearing shorts exposed his large fair thighs and calves, covered with smooth strands of black hair. His mother seemed to notice nothing unusual about his clothes; parents accept that offspring who live abroad will appear to them in a slightly altered incarnation, and are even disappointed if they do not.
Thus formality and forbearance binds this family as much as love.Hailed as a dazzling new talent in 1999 for Freedom Song, a collection of three novellas, Chaudhuri's remarkable accomplishment lies in the scope and complexity he paradoxically evokes in his exacting attention paid to mundane detail. --Victoria Jenkins [via]
The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literatureby Amit ChaudhuriISBN 0330343645 (0-330-34364-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Real Timeby Amit ChaudhuriISBN 0312421141 (0-312-42114-1)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Real Time : Stories and a Memoir in Verseby Amit ChaudhuriISBN 033049130X (0-330-49130-X)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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Real Time : Stories and a Reminiscenceby Amit ChaudhuriISBN 0330491318 (0-330-49131-8)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Women in Loveby D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen, Lindeth Vasey, David R. Farmer, Amit ChaudhuriISBN 0141441542 (0-14-144154-2)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:Two of D. H. Lawrence's most renowned novels-now with new packages and new introductions[via]
Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of the Brangwens. Focusing on Ursula Brangwen and her sister Gudrun's relationships-the former with a school inspector and the latter with an industrialist and then a sculptor-Women in Love is a powerful, sexually explicit depiction of the destructiveness of human relations.More editions of Women in Love:
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