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A new worldAmit Chaudhuri

A new world

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"Jayojit's marriage has failed, his wife of eleven years is now living with her doctor. A year of divorce courts and Jayojit, a semi-successful writer and economist, has finally retrieved his son Bonny for his summer holidays. They are leaving their home in the American Midwest and going back to Calcutta, to his grandparents: the Admiral and his wife.". "A New World watches Jayojit and his son as they share the dark, close flat with his parents while the city outside is blanketed in fierce summer heat. The streets vibrate with the sounds of car horns and the taped raags of wedding…

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3 editions
  • Other · English · 2002
    Vintage · 208 pages · 9780375724800
  • Other · English · 2001
    Picador · 200 pages · 9780330351065
  • Other · English · 2000
    Alfred Knopf · 191 pages · 9780375410932
Fathers and sonsFictionAmericansCustody of childrenFiction, general