Railsong - Couverture rigide

Bhattacharya, Rahul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1639736220 ISBN 13 : 9781639736225

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

"Magnificent . . . I would follow Miss Chitol to the ends of the earth." -Kamila Shamsie

"Profoundly tender [and] vigorously alive to the currents of national change." -Megha Majumdar

From the Man Asian Prize-shortlisted author Rahul Bhattacharya, a breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways of twentieth-century India.

In a country rapidly modernizing after independence, Animesh Chitol bends his caste title into a quirky surname, moves his family to the brand-new township of Bhombalpur Railway Workshop, and throws in his lot with an optimism-filled future. Then tragedy strikes. Into the empty space left by his wife's passing grows Chitol's only daughter, the middle child, Charu. As India moves from steam to diesel locomotives, through a great strike and state repression, Charu flees to Bombay, alarmed by her narrow prospects. There she quests for the means to live on her own terms.

Amidst the everyday discriminations of modern India, Charu forges her own destiny, becoming a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open-sometimes guilelessly-to her country's vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac, and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is one woman's coming of age and a beautifully complex love letter to the finely wrought world of the Indian railways and a country beset by religious and political upheaval.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rahul Bhattacharya is a writer, journalist and editor. He was born in Bombay in 1979 and lives in Delhi. His first book, Pundits from Pakistan, a cricket tour book, was published in 2005. It won the Crossword Popular Book Award in India, and was shortlisted for the Cricket Society Award, UK. In 2010, it was voted a top 10 cricket book of all time by The Wisden Cricketer, UK.

The Sly Company of People Who Care, his first novel, was published by Picador in 2011. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in the UK and the Hindu Literary Prize in India. It was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Economist Crossword Book Award, and was a Kirkus fiction Book of the Year in the US. He is an editor at The Cricket Monthly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1639736220
• ISBN 13: 9781639736225
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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