A revelatory and very personal exploration of Indian classical music from 'one of his generation's best writers' (Guardian). Winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Biography Award.
A lyrical and modern exploration of loneliness and failure-as well as a love letter to Homer and James Joyce-by one of our most celebrated writers.
The prize-winning debut fiction work by Amit Chaudhuri, the author whose 'languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all' (Salman Rushie).
Winner of the Encore Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionA beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle.
'A mysterious, subtle, haunting novel.'Chris PowerAn unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor.
**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra**Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained in the classical idiom but happily teaching more popular songs to well-to-do women, whose modern way of life he covets.
A stunning collection of short stories from the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth.
From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes, desires and regrets.
From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, acollected novel in three parts and tender ode to quotidianlife and family loyalties
I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious. A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little resemblance to his idea of the city.