My Beloved Life
- 352 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid.
Amitava Kumar Knihy
Amitava Kumar je uznávaný autor, ktorého diela sa ponárajú do zložitých tém identity, exilu a stretu kultúr. Jeho próza, často pretkaná osobnými reflexiami a sociálnou kritikou, skúma napätie medzi domovom a cudzinou, tradíciou a modernitou. Kumarov štýl je prenikavý aj poetický, zachytáva nuansy ľudskej skúsenosti s bystrou inteligenciou a súcitom. Jeho práca pozýva čitateľov zamyslieť sa nad hlbokými otázkami, ktoré formujú náš prepojený svet.
A Time Outside This Time
- 272 stránok
- 10 hodin čítania
A 'non-fiction novel' about lies and violence, ranging across Trump and Modi, the narrator's childhood experience of communal violence in India, and his wife's work as a psychologist.
Immigrant, Montana
- 320 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
A New York Times Book of the Year Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration - a country that is now unsure of the migrant's place in the nation's fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he's in a constant state of exile