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A New World

A New World

by Amit Chaudhuri

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A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his parents. Jayojit is no more accustomed to spending time alone with Bonny—who lives with his mother in California—than he is with the Admiral and his wife, whose daily rhythms have become so synchronized as to become completely foreign to their son.

Together, the unlikely foursome struggles to pass the protracted hours of summer, each in his or her own way mourning Jayojit’s failed marriage. Written with depth and tenderness, A New World goes right to the heart of a family, making vividly alive their hopes, desires, and regrets.

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Series: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 9781681379630
Pages: 232
Publication Date:

Praise

Chaudhuri’s beautiful third novel offers delicate tableaux vivants.... What most distinguishes A New World is not is narrative contours, but its repose. It is a gentle book of tremendous patience and sensitivity.
—Times Literary Supplement

Among the literary voices from Indian to have made themselves heard over the past ten years, Amit Chaudhuri’s is one of the quietest but most impressive.... [A] beautifully balanced, affecting, truthful book.
—Sunday Telegraph

Mr. Chaudhuri holds our attention with unobtrusive evocation of place, texture, and humanity.... He is capable of producing that quicksilver compound of recognition and surprise, which is, of course, what so often distinguishes art.
—The Economist

Amit Chaudhuri has marked out a special territory for himself among Indian writers.... He has as much of life in each of his books as many of his contemporaries will capture in a career.
—The Observer

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