Author of the Month: Amit Chaudhuri
Selected by the Bookshop
Our Author of the Month for July is the novelist, poet, essayist and musician Amit Chaudhuri.
Born in Calcutta in 1962, raised in Bombay, Amit was for several years resident in the UK and became a good friend of the Bookshop and a regular contributor to the LRB. About his work, James Wood has said it best: ‘He has beautifully practiced that ‘refutation of the spectacular’ throughout his career, both as a novelist and as a critic. ... how little Chaudhuri forces anything on us – there is no obvious plot, no determined design, no faked ‘conflict’ or other drama ... The effect is closer to documentary than to fiction; gentle artifice – selection, pacing, occasional dialogue – hides overt artifice. The author seems to say, Here he is; what do you think? The literary pleasure is a human pleasure, as we slowly encounter this strolling, musing, forceful self.’
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From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a collected novel in three parts and tender ode to quotidian life and family loyalties.Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes…
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From the award-winning author of Sojourn, a mesmerising novel about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future.**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra**Bombay in the 1980s:…
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A stunning collection of short stories from the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth. Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri’s stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marriage to a…
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From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes, desires and regrets. A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics…
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The new novel about the present, the past, and the slippage between private and public life—from a writer who has ‘like Proust, mastered the art of the moment.’ (Hilary Mantel) ‘A mysterious, subtle, haunting…
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The prize-winning debut fiction work by Amit Chaudhuri, the author whose ‘languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all’ (Salman Rushdie). Abhi, a Bengali boy, spends his…
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A lyrical and modern exploration of loneliness and failure—as well as a love letter to Homer and James Joyce—by one of our most celebrated writers. ‘Delightfully witty . . . Luminously intelligent . . . Odysseus…
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A perfect miniature of a novel about arrivals and departures, new worlds and old homes. Winner of the Encore Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionA beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon…
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A revelatory and very personal exploration of Indian classical music from ‘one of his generation’s best writers’ (Guardian). **WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**‘A splendid book.’ Literary…
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Ranging over place, memory and history, Amit Chaudhuri’s new collection of poems makes a fresh, spiritual accommodation with the world. The poems often take their themes from sweets named and eaten, meals remembered, and matches these…
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‘Amit Chaudhuri has, like Proust, perfected the art of the moment… [he] is a miniaturist, for whom tiny moments become radiant, and for whom the complexities of the fleeting mood uncurl onto the page like a leaf, a…
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'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…
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Amit Chaudhuri, one of the most exploratory writers of English-language fiction, has also written and published poetry throughout his career as a novelist, poetry that shares many of the concerns of his prose while sounding a distinct and…
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