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

In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space, Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Indian in relation to history. Often beginning with the personal, he inquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. With the same...

In Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri charts a day in the life of two Indian men--a twenty-two-year-old student trying (and failing) at being a poet and his bachelor uncle, who has been living in genteel poverty for nearly three decades--as they explore London, the city they now call home. A wistful and beguiling work of fiction, the novel follows nephew and uncle on one of their weekly forays about town, as they ruminate on their situations, the...

The Palaces of Memory is a journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafés which can be found in cities throughout the sub-continent. The Coffee Houses simultaneously speak of a Post-Independence optimism and a now-faded grandeur. Buried deep within the country's collective memory they have for decades acted simultaneously as political and artistic salons as well as simple eating places. Stuart Fre...

In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space, Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Indian in relation to history. Often beginning with the personal, he inquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. With the same...

In 1980s Bombay, a highly regarded voice teacher and his affluent sixteen-year-old student enter into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in their lives, and the lives of their families. With exquisitely sensuous detail, quiet humor, and unsentimental poignancy, Amit Chaudhuri paints a luminous portrait of the spiritual and emotional force behind a revered Indian tradition, of two fundamentally different but intri...

Amit Chaudhuri's first three award-winning novels in one volume When these three books were published in one volume in the US it was received with huge acclaim and went on to win the LA Times Book Award. Picador are now doing the same - bringing three wonderful books into one volume for the first time in the UK. Amit Chaudhuri writes about the details of every day urban life with brilliant sensitivity and often with great humour - whether it's...

In A New World Amit Chaudhuri, acclaimed author of Freedom Song, once again brilliantly infuses a quiet tale of family life with extraordinary depth and compassion.A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee travels to his native Calcutta with his young son to visit his parents. Together, the unlikely foursome struggles to pass to the protracted hours of summer, each in his or her own way mourning Jayojit's recently failed marriage. And as Ja...

In Amit Chaudhuri's novels, simple plots unfold into dramas of profound emotional resonance. A boy's visit with relatives conjures the melancholy comforts of family. An Indian student at an English university contemplates the conflicted relationship between an immigrant and his homeland. And the task of marrying off a "problem" son illuminates the complex community of cultures that is modern Calcutta.Freedom Song -- which collects three of Cha...