Amitava Kumar

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.

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.

First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confi

With tales of life in India and London and meditations on the form Indian fiction gives to the lives of those who read about it, this is a sweeping, p

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It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores

This book brings together great writing by figures from South Asia who give voice to the experience of the exile and the emigrant. The list of contrib

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A young poet is killed by her lover, a politician, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Soon afterward, across India in Bombay, an idealistic journal

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A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book combines Amitava Kumar's practical writing advice with interviews with prominent w