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 Jayojit walks the bustling streets of Calcutta, he is not only caught between clashing memories of India and America, but between different versions of his life, revisiting both realized potential and lost opportunity. A New World is a richly evoked and tender tale from one of the most gifted writers working in English today.