Amit Chaudhuri

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Freedom Song: Three Novels

Amit Chaudhuri

What most immediately galvanizes the reader of Freedom Song is the elegance and idiosyncrasy of Amit Chaudhuri’s writing. In the words of Salman Rushdie: “[His] languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to place in any category at all.” And it is this quality of ineffability that gives Chaudhuri’s words the power they have to reveal—slowly, quietly, with a richness of sensual detail and subtle humor—the significance of the ordinary moments of life.

A boy spends a summer and a winter with his parents in a Bombay high-rise, and…

 
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