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Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job, which takes him to Madna - a town with the highest temperatures in India - deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be much easier than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India.

 

Review

Convincing, entertaining, moving - and timeless. A classic. ? New York Times

Terrific . . . An elegant and gently mischievous satire. ? Observer

An affectionate yet unsparing slacker view of modern India likened to John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye . . . A writer worth discovering. ? Washington Post

One of the few Indian English novels genuinely, and wonderfully, impelled by irreverence and aimlessness. It's this acutely intelligent conflation of self-discovery with the puncturing of solemnity that makes this book not only a significant work, but a much-loved one. -- Amit Chaudhuri

Upamanyu Chatterjee's is a considerable talent . . . exciting and a pleasure to read. ? Times of India

Audacious . . . A jazzy, baggy, hyperbolic, comic and crazy clamour of voices which . . . brings a breath of fresh talent to Indian fiction. ? Herald

Book Description

A 30th anniversary edition of English, August, hailed as India's Catcher in the Rye.

About the Author

Upamanyu Chatterjee was born in 1959 at Patna, Bihar. After studying English literature at Delhi University, he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. Chatterjee has written three novels. His best-selling novel, English, August : An Indian story (subsequently made into a major film), was published in 1988.
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  • ISBN: 9780571345892
  • Author: Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Publisher: FABER & FABER
  • Pages: 352
  • Format: Paperback
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Book Description

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job, which takes him to Madna - a town with the highest temperatures in India - deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be much easier than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India.

 

Review

Convincing, entertaining, moving - and timeless. A classic. ? New York Times

Terrific . . . An elegant and gently mischievous satire. ? Observer

An affectionate yet unsparing slacker view of modern India likened to John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye . . . A writer worth discovering. ? Washington Post

One of the few Indian English novels genuinely, and wonderfully, impelled by irreverence and aimlessness. It's this acutely intelligent conflation of self-discovery with the puncturing of solemnity that makes this book not only a significant work, but a much-loved one. -- Amit Chaudhuri

Upamanyu Chatterjee's is a considerable talent . . . exciting and a pleasure to read. ? Times of India

Audacious . . . A jazzy, baggy, hyperbolic, comic and crazy clamour of voices which . . . brings a breath of fresh talent to Indian fiction. ? Herald

Book Description

A 30th anniversary edition of English, August, hailed as India's Catcher in the Rye.

About the Author

Upamanyu Chatterjee was born in 1959 at Patna, Bihar. After studying English literature at Delhi University, he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. Chatterjee has written three novels. His best-selling novel, English, August : An Indian story (subsequently made into a major film), was published in 1988.

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