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Freedom Song

Freedom Song

by Amit Chaudhuri (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, has been hired to cure a 'sick' sweet factory that doesn't particularly want to be cured. Across town, Khuku's brother worries about his son's affiliations with the Communist Party, but only because they may affect his ever-so-gradually coalescing marriage prospects. Freedom Song is vintage Amit Chaudhuri, playing with big ideas while evoking the smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinary beauty.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 05 Mar 2015
ISBN 10: 1780746296
ISBN 13: 9781780746296

Media Reviews
'An immensely gifted writer.' * New York Times Book Review *
'This is writing of great precision and economy, each incident, each small relvelation about the past, selected like a careful brushstroke.' -- Penelope Lively * Spectator *
'Subtle and strong... Chaudhuri's subject, in this tender and capricious book, is inexhaustible.' -- Adam Mars-Jones * Observer *
Author Bio
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, is a poet, a musician and a highly regarded critic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He has contributed fiction, poetry and reviews to numerous publications including the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker and Granta. Amit lives in Calcutta and Norwich.