Publishers Weekly, January 11th, 1999
Amit Chaudhuri Knopf, $24 (480p) ISBN 0-375-40427-9
Attended by its watchful, intuitive handmaiden-the laudable Chaudhuri, in his first U S publication--the English idiom emerges new-skinned and crying healthily m the humid air and shuttered rooms of Calcutta and Bombay Collected in one volume, a primer on Chaudhuri's remarkable surgeneris prose, these three modern, postcolonial novels poise their characters delicately between the ebb of the future and the flow of the past. This tension is often dramatized by the characters' use of the English tongue. A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) te...
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