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English, August

An Indian Story (New York Review Books Classics)

By Upamanyu Chatterjee, Akhil Sharma

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| Paperback | 9781590171790

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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 surrounContinue

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.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 336 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1590171799
  • ISBN-13: 9781590171790
  • Publisher: NYRB Classics
  • Pub date: Apr 04, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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