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  • Château Rouge

    'A true romance' Clare Carlisle

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    'One of our most entertaining writers' Deborah LevyI was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious.A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little resemblance to his idea of the city. With the passing of time, his disquiet translates into a way of seeking and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Château Rouge

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    A meditative and fragmentary novel about a writer invited to a residency in Paris, where he sublets an apartment in the Château Rouge area—an experience that eventually leads him to a newly expansive attitude toward the city.I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious.A writer is invited to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A New World

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    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 New World is a tale of a man recovering from a difficult divorce and a story about the way we live now. Set in the 1990s, the book describes a world become, in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Friend of My Youth

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    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 which he grew up, to give a reading. Ramu, the friend of his youth, with whom he likes to get together when he comes back, is not there: after years of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Finding the Raga

    An Improvisation on Indian Music

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    **Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyAn autobiographical exploration of the role and meaning of music in our world by one of India's greatest living authors, himself a vocalist and performer.**Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Incompleteness

    New and Selected Essays, 1999 - 2023

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    Essays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to D. H. Lawrence to globalization, from one of India’s preeminent writers“I’m an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again, I don’t write about India. I’m not interested in writing about India. This means I’m not entirely, or comfortably, a part of the history of the Indian novel in English either. Nor can I be part of a history ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Immortals

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    Two families in 1980s Bombay—one making ends meet in the old world of Indian classical music, the other thriving in a booming new world of corporate luxury—intersect in this lyrical novel of art and commerce, capturing a city (and country) in a state of change.Music is central to the work of Amit Chaudhuri, who is well-known as a musician and performer himself. In his brilliantly exploratory ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Sojourn

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    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 sojourn in the city, which seems strange, and also strangely familiar, to him. He is disoriented by its names, its immensity, and its history; he is ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Strange and Sublime Address

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    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.Ten-year-old Sandeep lives in a high-rise in Bombay, where his father has an important job that keeps him busy all the time. Come summer, Sandeep and his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Strange and Sublime Address

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    Abhi, a Bengali boy, spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta, trying to make sense of the often confusing world of adults around him. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes, prayer-sessions, shopping expeditions and family visits create the shifting tectonic plates that will eventually shape the family's life.Delicate, nuanced, full of exquisite detail, A Strange and Sublime ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Odysseus Abroad

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    'Delightfully witty . . . Luminously intelligent . . . Odysseus Abroad has placed itself, with erudition and playfulness, on the map of modernism.' Guardian1985: twenty-two year old Ananda is a student adrift in Thatcher's Britain, homesick and isolated. His eccentric uncle, Radhesh, is a magnificent failure and an eccentric virgin who has lived in genteel impoverishment in Hampstead for nearly ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Calcutta

    Two Years in the City

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri moved back to Calcutta, the city in which he was born. It was a place he had loved in his youth and the place he had made his name writing about. But upon his return he discovered that the Calcutta of his imagination had receded and another had taken its place.Lyrical, observant and profound, Calcutta is a personal account of two years (2009–2011) spent in one of the least ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD