Afternoon Raag - Chaudhuri, Amit
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"Winner of the UK's Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. A young man arrives in Oxford and finds himself involved in relationships with two women, neither of which is destined for fulfillment. Interspersed between glimpses of students' lives and friendships are fragmentary memories of the narrator's parents, the death of his music teacher, and the world of North Indian classical music itself"--

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"Winner of the UK's Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. A young man arrives in Oxford and finds himself involved in relationships with two women, neither of which is destined for fulfillment. Interspersed between glimpses of students' lives and friendships are fragmentary memories of the narrator's parents, the death of his music teacher, and the world of North Indian classical music itself"--
Autorenporträt
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, and musician. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is the author of more than a dozen books, several of which are available from NYRB, including the novels Friend of My Youth, Sojourn, A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, and Freedom Song; a work of memoir and music criticism, Finding the Raga; and the poetry collection Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023. Formerly a professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia, Chaudhuri is now a professor of creative writing and the director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical at Ashoka University. James Wood has been a staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. The author of several books of essays and two novels, he is a professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard University.