Telling Tales: Selected Writings, 1993-2013 - Hardcover

Amit Chaudhuri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908526246 ISBN 13: 9781908526243

Publisher: Union Books, 2013

Synopsis

Amit Chaudhuri is one of India's finest novelists writing in English today. This collection of his non-fiction, written for publications such as Granta and the Times Literary Supplement, displays all his characteristic elegance and quirky humour. Endlessly curious, he ranges over topics from a plane hijack to playing 'Cowboys and Indians' as a child in Bombay, and from Leonard Cohen to the strange resemblance between Walter Benjamin and a familiar type of Bengali intellectual.

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About the Author:

AMIT CHAUDHURI is the author of Calcutta: Two Years in the City and five highly acclaimed novels, including A Strange and Sublime Address, Freedom Song and The Immortals. He is the recipient of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Award, the LA Times Book Prize for fiction, the Indian government's Sahitya Akademi Award and the Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the humanities in literary studies. Also a poet, an acclaimed musician and critic, Amit Chaudhuri lives in Calcutta and Norwich.

Review:

'Engaging, introspective and entertaining. They showcase his ability to reach a diverse audience without losing intellectual verve. I relished every tale and essay here, not least because Chaudhuri subtly politicised the ways in with both writing and writers are culturally placed, described and sanitised.' -- Deborah Levy New Statesman

About this edition

• Publisher: Union Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908526246
• ISBN 13: 9781908526243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320