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A novelist who is also named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay - a setting reeling from the 2008 terrorist attacks - and finds himself preoccupied with the absence of his opaque and drifting childhood friend Ramu. Chaudhuri is a favourite of James Wood, Anne Enright and Jonathan Coe.

Across a diverse collection of essays, Chaudhuri explores the differences between the contemporary nature of a writer's conception of their role and the literary traditions of the past. Chaudhuri is also particularly illuminating about new ways of addressing the distinctions between Western and non-Western traditions.

This book focuses on the study of possible adaptive sampling mechanisms for haptic data compression aimed at applications like tele-operations and tele-surgery. Demonstrating that the selection of the perceptual dead zones is a non-trivial problem, it presents an exposition of various issues that researchers must consider while designing compression algorithms based on just noticeable difference (JND). The book begins by identifying perceptual...

Amit Chaudhuri's stories range across the astonishing face of the modern Indian subcontinent. From a divorcé about to enter into an arranged marriage to a teenaged poet who develops a relationship with a lonely widower, from singing teachers to housewives to white-collar businessmen, Chaudhuri deftly explores the juxtaposition of the old and new worlds in his native India. Here are stories as sweet and humane as they are incisive and revealing...

This volume is the first in what will be a series of collections arising from different perspectives exploring the nature and place of the 'literary' in a cultural landscape dominated by the market on the one hand, and, on the other, critical positions sceptical of that category. It is an attempt to create a discussion, involving writers, academics, artists, translators, and publishers, that is at once non-academic, immediate, and intellectual...

A new novel from the author of "Odysseus Abroad" and "A Strange & Sublime Address", about geographical, historical and personal change.

An exposition of loneliness, failure and the experience of living as a foreigner abroad in Thatcher's Britain by an internationally acclaimed writer. 'Chaudari can write better than just about anyone of his generation.' Jonathan Coe

The latest novel from the author "The Apartment, The Lost Dog" and many others, this explores loneliness, failure and the experience of living as a foreigner abroad in Thatcher's Britain, during the 1980s.

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In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today's brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs. The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in Eng...

Lyrical, observant and profound, this is Amit Chaudhuri's highly personal account of the two years he spent in one of the least known, but greatest, cities of our time. From the homeless to the declining haute bourgeois, from the new malls and hotels to ancient buildings being destroyed by developers, Chaudhuri leaves nothing untouched in this stunning piece of travel writing.

A rejacketed edition of this account of a young Bengali man who is studying at Oxford University and caught in a complicated love triangle, from a prize-winning author.

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the DSC Prize and the Vodafone Crossword Award

In this beautiful collection, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marriage to a teengaed poet who develops a relationship with a lonely widower, from a singing teacher struggling to make a living out of the boredom of his students to gauche teenager desperate to hurdle past his adolescence. Ripe with subtlety, elegance and deep feeling, this is vintage Chaudhuri.

Winner of the Betty Trask Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, Freedom Song is a subtle and elegiac novel that celebrates the rhythms of modern Calcutta, politically, artistically and socially

An extraordinarily evocative tableau of the emotional and physical intricacies of marriage and its failure

A beguiling novel about two Indian men in London, each coping in his own way with alienation.