English, August: an Indian story

By:

Chatterjee, Upamanyu

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Faber and Faber 2018 LondonDescription: xi, 326 pISBN:

9780571345892

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.914 C4E6

Summary: 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. https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571345892-english-august-an-indian-story.html

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad	Fiction	823.914 C4E6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available			197626
Book	Kozhikode		82-311.2 CHA/E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Recommended by Prof. Prof. Debashis Chatterjee		IIMKO-37224

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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.

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