Telling Tales

About the Book: Telling Tales: Selected Writing, 1993-2013 Amit Chaudhuri is one of our top literary critics and this is his essential collection of writing Spanning a writing career of over twenty years, the acclaimed novelist Amit Chaudhuri is also one of the most gifted essayists and critics writing today, whose work has appeared in the pages of many of the most prestigious newspapers and journals in the world, including the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Granta, the Guardian, and the Dublin Review. Collected here for the first time, Telling Tales is a selection of Chaudhuris most enduring short non-fiction that showcases his sense of humour, his idiosyncratic capacity to transform the mundane, his political engagement, and his mastery of words. From playing Cowboys and Indians as a child in India to an outsiders perspective on the British class system to a plane that was hijacked by Pakistani men and taken to Afghanistan at the turn of the millennium to the works of V.S. Naipaul and to the humble Indian savoury the chanachur, these essays display Chaudhuris ability to find meaning in every aspect of the physical and intellectual world and will consolidate his reputation as one of the most original and elegant writers publishing in English today. Superbly original-London Review of Books About the Author: Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. He is the author of five novels and numerous works of non-fiction, most recently Calcutta. Chaudhuri has received several awards such as the Commonwealth Writers Prize (South Asia and Europe Region, Best First Book, 1991), the UKs Society of Authors Betty Trask Award for best first novel (1991), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2000), the Sahitya Akademi award (2002), and most recently the Infosys Prize for humanities and the West Bengal governments Rabindra Puraskar for his writings on Tagore.He

Author: Amit Chaudhuri 

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Released Date: 2014

ISBN: 9780670087389