A Strange And Sublime Address - Softcover

Chaudhuri, Amit

9780143419440: A Strange And Sublime Address

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ISBN 10: 0143419447 ISBN 13: 9780143419440

Publisher: Penguin, 2013

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During the school holidays, Sandeep exchanges the smooth silence of his parents' modern flat in Bombay for a world of enchantment in his uncle's colourful household in Calcutta. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes, prayer-sessions and family visits are the background to more dramatic events.

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Review

‘Every fiction must create an illusion of reality; and Chaudhuri’s novels succeed in doing so to an impressive degree. He has such a tender intimacy with the world and the people who inhabit it’

(New York Review of Books)

‘Chaudhuri’s languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all’

(Salman Rushdie)

‘This evocation of the routine, quotidian magic of normality strikes me as an extraordinary thing to have brought off... mesmerizing’

(John Lanchester Vogue)

About the Author

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, is a poet, an acclaimed musician, and a highly regarded critic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He has contributed fiction, poetry and reviews to numerous publications including the Guardian, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Yorker and Granta. Amit lives in Calcutta and Norwich.

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