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An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man¿s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid.

An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, starting from his 1935 birth in a small village in India.Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He meets the sherpa who first su...

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Drawing as a way of keeping a diary, writing down thoughts in a journal as a way of maintaining a historical record - in watercolours and also in words. These were resources that Amitava Kumar had been using even before the pandemic arrived. But the task gained urgency just when he felt most isolated and afraid. The Blue Book is a writer's artistic response to our present world: one that has bestowed upon us countless deaths from a virus, a fl...

A 'non-fiction novel' about lies and violence, ranging across Trump and Modi, the narrator's childhood experience of communal violence in India, and his wife's work as a psychologist.

A 'non-fiction novel' about lies and violence, ranging across Trump and Modi, the narrator's childhood experience of communal violence in India, and his wife's work as a psychologist.

It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that the author explores in this vivid, entertaining account of his hometown. We accompany him on journeys and memories through many Patnas, the myriad cities within the city the shabby reality of the present-day capital of Bihar, Pataliputra, the storied city of emperors, the dreamlike embodiment of the city in the minds ...

From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana, a one-of-a-kind novel about fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than fiction, but a fiction of its own.When a writer named Satya attends a prestigious artist retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won't let up: President Trump rages online, a dangerous virus envelopes the globe, and the 24-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. For most of th...

Some portions of this work originally appeared in Brick, The Wire, and Virginia Quarterly Review"--Copyright page.

The Lovers is about a man in search of a love story. This man, our narrator, is Kailash-a new immigrant, eager to shine. His friends teasingly call him Kalashnikov and sometimes AK-47, even AK. In his account of his years at a university in New York, AK takes us through the bittersweet arc of youth and love. There is discovery and disappointment. There are the brilliant women, Jennifer and Nina and Cai Yan. There is the political texture of ca...

Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life or Stephen King's On Writing was for creative writers. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the book's pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making use of a kitchen timer. Communication, engagemen...

A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book combines Amitava Kumar's practical writing advice with interviews with prominent writers, offering guidance and inspiration for academic writers at all levels.

The author of ... Lunch with a Bigot now gives us a ... novel--reminiscent of Teju Cole, W.G. Sebald, John Berger--about a young new immigrant to the U.S. in search of love: across dividing lines between cultures, between sexes, and between the particular desires of one man and the women he comes to love"--

Mit weit aufgerissenen Augen kommt der indische Student Kailash 1990 nach New York. Er passt sich mühelos an, will sich einfügen - mehr noch, er will glänzen. Voller Ironie und Selbstzweifel erzählt er von seinen Jahren auf dem Campus, von den Frauen, in die er sich verliebt, die sich jedoch ziemlich rasch wieder entlieben. Amitava Kumar entwirft das Porträt von einem, der zwischen den Kulturen steht - und sich dabei nichts sehnlicher wünscht,...

Notions of the 'immigrant novel' are played with to the rhythms of a brilliant literary voice in this story of AK coming to study in New York and embarking on erotic relationships with women, politics and literature. A postcolonial narrative for a new generation.

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This book brings together great writing by figures from South Asia who give voice to the experience of the exile and the emigrant. The list of contributors also includes Hanif Kureishi, Rohinton Mistry, Meera Syal, and others.

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.