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 spends other summers in Calcutta immersed in the more traditional life of his uncle’s extended family…A young man at Oxford, whose memories of home in Bombay bring both comfort and melancholy, faces a choice between “clinging to my Indianness, or letting it go, between being nostalgic or looking toward the future”… The members of a Calcutta family are occupied with the task of finding the right woman for the twenty-eight-year-old son who would rather occupy himself with politics…
In these three short novels—Freedom…
