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Freedom song
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- Book Synopsis
- Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, has been hired to cure a 'sick' sweet factory that doesn't particularly want to be cured. Across town, Khuku's brother worries about his son's affiliations with the Communist Party, but only because they may affect his ever-so-gradually coalescing marriage prospects. Freedom Song is a work of fiction that plays with big ideas while evoking the smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinary beauty.
- About The Author
- Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, including Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, as well as four books of essays, three books of poems, two works of non-fiction, a collection of short stories and a critical study of D. H. Lawrence's poetry. He has received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. From 2006 until 2021, he was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia and is currently Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University. He is a vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition and a composer and performer in a celebrated project that brings together different musical traditions.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571361533
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (06 July 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 208 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 130 x 16 mm
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