{"product_id":"8304-three-novels","title":"Three Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Amit Chaudhuri\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador India\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2001\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 454\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0330482750\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn omnibus including three novels of well-known Indian fiction writer Amit Chaudhuri, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book award for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection includes three novels ‘ A Strange and Sublime Address’, ‘Afternoon Raag’, and ‘Freedom Song’ authored by widely acclaimed Indian fiction writer Amit Chaudhuri.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR THE NOVELS:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Strange and Sublime Address:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFunny, delicate, sensuous. Made me laugh aloud.  The best portrait of India Today I’ve read.\u003cbr\u003e-\tMargaret Drabble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis evocation of the routine, quotidian magic of normality strikes me as an extraordinary thing to have brought off.  Mesmerizing.\u003cbr\u003e-\tJohn Lanchester, Vogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI read the novel at one sitting and enjoyed it immensely.\u003cbr\u003e-\tSatyajit Ray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChaudhuri writes precisely, carefully, trying to capture in the rhythms of his prose the faded happiness of thins, the strange, pure remembered moments.  Pure evocative beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\tColm Toibin and Carmen Callil  in The Modern Library: 200 Best novels in English since 1950\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfternoon Raag:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnchanting, studded with moments of beauty more arresting than anything to be found in a hundred busier and more excitable narratives.  Chaudhuri has proved that he can write better than just about anyone of his generation.\u003cbr\u003e-\tJonathan Coe, London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis immensely subtle novel both estranges and gently evokes the surface of English and Indian life.  I know of nothing in English fiction that resembles it.\u003cbr\u003e-\tTom Palin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreedom Song:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn immensely gifted writer.  His novels are crammed with breathtaking sentences, sharp characterizations, comic set pieces and melancholy grace notes.\u003cbr\u003e-\tNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChaudhuri writes about India like no one else.  Exquisite and supremely haunting, a work of contemporary fiction by a world-class writer.\u003cbr\u003e-\tRobert McCrum, Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for the author:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo lover of literature will fail to love these vivid novels by a master of prose.\u003cbr\u003e-\tAnnie Dillard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo read Chaudhuri is to offer yourself the unmitigated pleasure of being in the company of the absolutely first rate, to see again the possibilities of the novel as an art form.\u003cbr\u003e\t\t\t\t\t- Jim Harrison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChaudhuri’s languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to place in any category at all.\u003cbr\u003e-\tSalman Rushdie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHose who are always acclaiming the ‘poetic prose’ of Ondaatje would do well to study Chaudhuri’s language.  Again and again, he produces the perfect adjective, the stupendous adverb. radiantly exact.\u003cbr\u003e-\tJames Wood, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Van Gogh, he can even invest the bed and the chairs of an exile’s room with a radiant life of their own.  A sublime impressionist.\u003cbr\u003e-\tBoyd Tonkin, New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis omnibus edition includes following novels of Amit Chaudhuri:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. A Strange and Sublime Address\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Afternoon Raag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. 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