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A New World

Amit Chaudhuri

Chaudhuri, Amit;

A New World

Picador, 2001, 200 pages

ISBN 0330351060

topics: |  fiction | india | english


Divorced writer Jayojit is taking his son Bonny back to Calcutta for the
summer holidays, to stay with his elderly parents. This story details the
lives of his parents, entrenched in the unquestioning roles of their past,
and of Jayojit's marriage, now sharpley severed in two.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009