My Beloved Life
- 352 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
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.
Amitava Kumar Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Amitava Kumar je uznávaný autor, jehož díla se ponořují do složitých témat identity, exilu a střetu kultur. Jeho próza, často protkaná osobními reflexemi a sociální kritikou, zkoumá napětí mezi domovem a cizincem, tradicí a modernitou. Kumarův styl je zároveň pronikavý i poetický, zachycuje nuance lidské zkušenosti s bystrou inteligencí a soucitem. Jeho práce zve čtenáře k zamyšlení nad hlubokými otázkami, které formují náš propojený svět.
A Time Outside This Time
- 272 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
A 'non-fiction novel' about lies and violence, ranging across Trump and Modi, the narrator's childhood experience of communal violence in India, and his wife's work as a psychologist.
Immigrant, Montana
- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
A New York Times Book of the Year Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration - a country that is now unsure of the migrant's place in the nation's fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he's in a constant state of exile