Real Time
Published on 19. May 2023
256 pages
978-0-571-36158-8 (ISBN)
Description
Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marriage to a teengaed poet who develops a relationship with a lonely widower, from a singing teacher struggling to make a living out of the boredom of his students to gauche teenager desperate to hurdle past his adolescence.
Rich with subtlety, elegance and deep feeling, Real Time is classic Chaudhuri.
Rich with subtlety, elegance and deep feeling, Real Time is classic Chaudhuri.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-0-571-36158-8 (9780571361588)
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Person
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, including Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, as well as three books of essays, two books of poems, and a collection of short stories. He has been awarded the James Tait Black Prize, the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Betty Trask award, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the English Association, and was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize.
Content
- Intro
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- STORIES
- Portrait of an Artist
- Four Days Before the Saturday Night Social
- The Man from Khurda District
- Beyond Translation
- The Great Game
- Real Time
- Prelude to an Autobiography: A Fragment
- The Second Marriage
- Words, Silences
- The Party
- Confession of a Sacrifice
- The Old Masters
- An Infatuation
- The Wedding
- White Lies
- E-MINOR
- E-Minor
- Chasing a Poet: Epilogue
- Note
- About the Author
- Further praise for Real Time
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
