Friend of my youth
Chaudhuri, Amit
Friend of my youth / Amit Chaudhuri. - New York : New York Review Books , c2017 - 165 pages ; 22 cm
An intensely personal novel about childhood, memory, and history by one of today's most celebrated authors, now available in the US for the first time. In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home. Amit Chaudhuri's new novel is about geographical, historical and personal change. It asks a question we all grapple with in our lives: what does it mean to exist in both the past and the present?
English
9781681373386 (softcover : acid-free paper)
Cultural heritage
Friendship----Fiction
Memory -- Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept)----Fiction
Mumbai terrorists attacks---2008
Mumbai (India)---- Fiction
PR9499.3.C4678 / F75 2017
FIC CHA
Friend of my youth / Amit Chaudhuri. - New York : New York Review Books , c2017 - 165 pages ; 22 cm
An intensely personal novel about childhood, memory, and history by one of today's most celebrated authors, now available in the US for the first time. In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home. Amit Chaudhuri's new novel is about geographical, historical and personal change. It asks a question we all grapple with in our lives: what does it mean to exist in both the past and the present?
English
9781681373386 (softcover : acid-free paper)
Cultural heritage
Friendship----Fiction
Memory -- Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept)----Fiction
Mumbai terrorists attacks---2008
Mumbai (India)---- Fiction
PR9499.3.C4678 / F75 2017
FIC CHA
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