Real Time - Stories and a Reminiscence

Author: Amit ChaudhuriPublisher: Picador IndiaYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 184ISBN/UPC (if available): 033049130X DescriptionIn these wry, lyrical stories, men, women, children, and even gods try to maintain their dignity and make sense of their lives, amid the jostling loneliness and cultural upheaval of post-post-Independence India. Whether it's an embarrassed schoolboy standing up to the tyranny of disco, a conventional housewife inspired to write her memoirs, a businessman attending memorial rites for a young suicide, or two divorcees about to enter into an arranged marriage, the portraits that Chaudhuri draws from India's new middle class are studies in heartbreaking awkwardness and hard-won grace.This brilliantly nuanced first story-collection, which rangers over thirty years of Indian life, confirms Amit Chadhuri's reputation as one of the best prose writers of his generation. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE BOOKChaudhuri's stories have a wonderful quietness, depth and accuracy.