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English, August : an Indian story / Upamanyu Chatterjee ; introduction by Akhil Sharma.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.3.C4665 E54 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chatterjee, Upamanyu.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Civil service.
- Civil service--Fiction.
- City and town life--Fiction.
- City and town life.
- India--Fiction.
- India.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 326 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2006]
- 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. The job takes him to Madna, "the hottest town 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 a lot easier for August than living with himself." English, August "is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Like "A Confederacy of Dunces" and "The Catcher in the Rye," it is both an inspired and hilarious satire and a timeless story of self-discovery.
- Notes:
- Orginally published: Faber and Faber, 1988.
- ISBN:
- 1590171799
- OCLC:
- 61247225
- Publisher Number:
- 9781590171790
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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