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The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri paperback(1st Vintage Books Edition 2010)
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- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
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- ISBN
- 9780307454652
- Book Title
- Immortals
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 10.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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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 intricately intertwined families; and of a society choosing between the old and the new.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307454657
ISBN-13
9780307454652
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81827508
Product Key Features
Book Title
Immortals
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
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Reviews
"Amit Chaudhuri is one of India's most distinctive literary figures. While lesser writers obsess over the heat and dust, he charts the by-ways of the Indian soul . . .The Immortalsis a memorable workcapacious, multi-faceted but intimate, it is Indian to the core but universal in its implications . . . [It is a] superb new novel . . . Handled with great sensitivity and wit . . . Masterful." The Independent "The Immortalsis an important novel . . . There is a filigreed, Jamesian quality to Chaudhuri's work, an urbanity and aesthetic style not often associated with Indian fiction . . . In Chaudhuri, we get an intense moral and psychological realism, a honed treatment of the fleeting specificities of everyday life." Times Literary Supplement "An entertaining, engaging read . . . Chaudhuri is a master of social comedy . . . And what a cast of humankind is conjured up." Sunday Business Post(Ireland) "Chaudhuri's particular art lies in rendering beauty from normality. His characters linger in the mind; and his prose, with its exactness and elegance, its exquisite delineation of memory and emotion, has a strange, mesmerising grace." Financial Times "A graceful tale by a writer whose fiction is as beautiful as a classical ballet . . . There are so many reasons for liking this delicate human comedy of a novel . . . It is as if we are unofficial tourists being given an unofficial eye hole to look through . . . [This is] a book that not only brings India to life, it considers all life and all endings." Irish Times "The lyrical quality of Chaudhuri's writing is striking. The imagery is vivid, the humour deliciously oblique . . . The great strength of the novel is the truthfulness of the emotional landscape . . . It invites honourable comparison with Thomas Mann'sBuddenbrooks." The Times(London), ANew Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle,andBoston GlobeBest Book of the Year "Vivid and engrossing. . . . In the gloriously crowded world of modern Indian fiction, Chaudhuri stands out as a master craftsman. With exquisite wit and grace, he can depict a rapidly changing India in a single life and an entire life in a single detail." -Boston Globe "A masterwork. . . . Chaudhuri's characters evolve in subtle ways, through startling insights and observations. . . . Wholly absorbing. . . . Enchanting. . . . Impressive and rare. . . . Seldom has any contemporary author invested such detail in descriptions of place, behavior, and physicality. Chaudhuri is astonishingly precise." -San Francisco Chronicle "Chaudhuri's exquisite, highly-nuanced, often very funny novel . . . somehow took command of my thinking, my vocabulary, my sense of what's important and what should be. This kind of surrender is rare, and is what I always seek in fiction." -Richard Ford "Elegant. . . . Discerning. . . . Chaudhuri is a maestro of intimation.The Immortalsconfirms his reputation." -The New York Times Book Review "Chaudhuri lovingly evokes a fractious, contradictory city caught between tradition and modernization." -The New Yorker "A writer whose fiction is as beautiful as a classical ballet . . . a command performance. Even in the context of contemporary Indian writing in English, much of which is outstanding, Chaudhuri is the best." -Irish Times "The lyrical quality of [Chaudhuri's] writing is striking. The terrain of the novel is the battleground of art and materialism. In this it invites honourable comparison with Thomas Mann'sBuddenbrooks." -The Times(London) "Chaudhuri is one of India's most distinctive literary figures. While lesser writers obsess over the heat and dust, he charts the by-ways of the Indian soul. . . .The Immortalsis a memorable work-capacious, multi-faceted but intimate, it is Indian to the core but universal in its implications. . . . Superb." -The Independent(London) "There are two Indian writers who are quite unlike each other, but whose sentences are immediately identifiable. If just a few words of their prose are read out to you, you will confidently call out their names-one is Rushdie, the other is Chaudhuri." -The National(Abu Dhabi) "Chaudhuri's particular art lies [in] rendering beauty from normality. His characters linger in the mind; and his prose, with its exactness and elegance, its exquisite delineation of memory and emotion, has a strange, mesmerising grace." -Financial Times "An important novel. . . . There is a filigreed, Jamesian quality to [Chaudhuri's] work, an urbanity and aesthetic style not often associated with Indian fiction." -TheTimes Literary Supplement(London) "Amit Chaudhuri captures, as no one else can, the delicate, subtle emotions of people who inhabit an India of the past and the privileged. . . . His powerful evocations of people and places, his startling use of words and images and metaphors, leaves an impression that lingers in the reader's mind for many days, more like poetry than prose. The Immortalsis his most beautiful and complex novel." -Wendy Doniger "I cannot speak here of the many-sided pleasure I have got out of reading the book. It's a truly wonderful novel, and helps me to think about the myriad ways in which class
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Dewey Decimal
823.914
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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