My Beloved Life
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
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.
Amitava Kumar Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Amitava Kumar è un acclamato autore le cui opere si addentrano nei complessi temi dell'identità, dell'esilio e dello scontro culturale. La sua prosa, spesso intessuta di riflessioni personali e critica sociale, esplora le tensioni tra casa e straniero, tradizione e modernità. Lo stile di Kumar è allo stesso tempo penetrante e poetico, catturando le sfumature dell'esperienza umana con acuta intelligenza ed empatia. La sua scrittura invita i lettori a contemplare le profonde questioni che plasmano il nostro mondo interconnesso.
A Time Outside This Time
- 272pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
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.
Immigrant, Montana
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
A New York Times Book of the Year Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration - a country that is now unsure of the migrant's place in the nation's fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he's in a constant state of exile