Real Time
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 housewives to white-collar businessmen, Chaudhuri deftly explores the juxtaposition of the new and old worlds in his native India. Here are stories as sweet and ironic as they are deft and revealing.
RM52.50
Out of stock
Description
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 housewives to white-collar businessmen, Chaudhuri deftly explores the juxtaposition of the new and old worlds in his native India. Here are stories as sweet and ironic as they are deft and revealing.
Publisher: Oneworld Publishing
Paperback
2015
ISBN: 9781780746432
Related products
-
The Stone Raft
A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist José Saramago What if, one day,...RM39.90 -
Skylight
In 1953, José Saramago submitted a novel to his publishers Thirty-six years later, he heard back Called ‘the book lost and found in time’ by...RM69.90 -
Child of All Nations
In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist – and full of...RM75.50 -
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention, as he finds the relationship between fact and fiction to...RM39.90