A Strange and Sublime Address

Amit Chaudhuri

ISBN 10: 0571361498 / ISBN 13: 9780571361496

Edité par Faber and Faber, GB, 2022

A propos de cet article

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 Address is also a paean to the city, with nine short stories that illustrate the world of Amit Chaudhuri's imagination.With a foreword by Colm Tóibín.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Strange and Sublime Address
• Éditeur: Faber and Faber, GB
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571361498
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571361496
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Main.
• État de l'article: New
• Dimensions: 13 L x 1,7 H x 19,5 P (centimètres) 13 centimètres de largeur par 1,7 centimètres de hauteur par 19,5 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 215 grammes

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Synopsis

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 Address is also a paean to the city, with nine short stories that illustrate the world of Amit Chaudhuri's imagination.

With a foreword by Colm Tóibín

À propos de l?auteur

Amit Chaudhuri is the acclaimed author of six novels, including Odysseus Abroad and A Strange and Sublime Address, and two books of essays. He has been awarded the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Encore Award, the LA Times Book Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the English Association, and was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize. Currently he is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.