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Telling Tales Amit Chaudhuri

Telling Tales By Amit Chaudhuri

Telling Tales by Amit Chaudhuri


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The first collection of work by acclaimed novelist and essayist Amit Chaudhuri.

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Telling Tales: Selected Writings, 1993-2013 by Amit Chaudhuri

Spanning a writing career of over twenty years, acclaimed novelist and author of Calcutta: Two Years in the City, Amit Chaudhuri, is also one of the most gifted essayists and critics writing today, whose work has appeared in the pages of many of the most prestigious newspapers and journals in the world, including The London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Granta, the Guardian, and the Dublin Review. Collected here for the first time, Mere Writing is a selection of Chaudhuri's most enduring short non-fiction that showcases his sense of humour, his idiosyncratic capacity to transform the mundane, his political engagement, and his mastery of words. From playing 'Cowboys and Indians' as a child in India to an outsider's perspective on the British class system to a plane that was hijacked by Pakistani men and taken to Afghanistan at the turn of the millennium to the works of V. S Naipaul and to the humble Indian savoury, the chanachur, these essays display Chaudhuri's ability to find meaning in every aspect of the physical and intellectual world and will consolidate his reputation as one of most original and elegant writers publishing in English today.

Telling Tales Reviews

'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 Amit Chaudhuri

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.

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GOR008385283
9781908526243
1908526246
Telling Tales: Selected Writings, 1993-2013 by Amit Chaudhuri
Used - Like New
Hardback
Quarto Publishing PLC
2013-08-22
320
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