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  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

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  • 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

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

  • Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    Amit Chaudhuri, one of the most exploratory writers of English-language fiction, has also written and published poetry that shares many of the concerns of his prose while sounding a distinct and memorable note of its own. This book collects the greater portion of that work for the first time, starting with St Cyril Road (2005), Sweet Shop (2019), Ramanujan (2021), and a selection of new and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Origins of Dislike

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    'Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuri's criticism disproves and questions several assumptions—that a serious and original artist cannot ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

    $10.79 USD

  • Afternoon Raag

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    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 memory moves unpredictably in time. In it, a nameless first-person narrator looks back at his student days in Oxford, a period of loneliness and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD