People travel; books do too bombay-london-newyork is a way of measuring the distances that people and books travel interweaving the personal and professional, amitava kumar blurs the line between literary criticism and memoir in this lucid chronicle of migration and writerly development the central narrative in this book concerns the movement between the cities named in its title, although its conceit is that the journey truly lies in the realm of books and memories cities thus become venues for recollection and re-creation in the mind of the indian writer of the diaspora, and also sites for literary construction in this bold sequel to passport photos, amitava kumar continues his efforts to return postcolonial studies to a sense of lived dailiness combining thoughts on such varied figures as arundhati roy, laloo prasad yadav and safdar hashmi with his own insights into literature and contemporary life, he delivers a highly engrossing and memorable text in his appreciation of the immigrant condition

Bombay - London - New York : A Literary Journey

Biographies & Memoirs

amitava-kumar

Regional U.S.

Penguin books.India

Away

Literature & Fiction

New York, NY: Routledge

In the summer of 1999, while the kargil war was being fought, amitava kumar married a pakistani muslim that event led to a process of discovery that made kumar examine the relationship not only between india and pakistan but also between hindus and muslims inside india the result is this fiercely personal essay on the idea of the enemy written with complete honesty and with no claims to journalistic detachment, this book chronicles the complicity that binds the writer to the rioter unlike both the fundamentalists and the secularists, kumar finds-or makes-utterly human those whom he opposes more than a travelogue which takes the reader to wagah, patna, bhagalpur, karachi, kashmir, and even johannesburg, this book, then, becomes a portrait of the people the author meets in these places, people dealing with the consequences of the politics of faith with a writers eye for detail, kumar has drawn a map of violence informed more by a travellers sense of observation than a safe, academic moralism, husband of a fanatic refuses to monumentalize suffering-instead, it presents tragedy as ordinary, and hence, more difficult to accept easily in a village beside the ganges near bhagalpur, in a psychiatric ward in srinagar, in a classroom in ahmedabad everywhere that the author goes, the reader is compelled to accompany him on a journey to the heart of hatred

Husband of a Fanatic

a penguin original

Home Products

Literary

Panmacmillan

Immigrant, Montana: A novel

Vintage

Immigrant, Montana

Penguin Canada

My Beloved Life

Picador

Bombay--London--New York

Taylor&Francis

Drawing as a way of keeping a diary, writing down thoughts in a journal as a way of maintaining a historical record - in watercolours and also in words. These were resources that Amitava Kumar had been using even before the pandemic arrived. But the task gained urgency just when he felt most isolated and afraid. The Blue Book is a writer's artistic response to our present world: one that has bestowed upon us countless deaths from a virus, a flood of fake news, but also love in the face of loss, travels through diverse landscapes, and - if we care to notice - visions of blazing beauty. From one of the acclaimed and accomplished authors of our time, this writer's journal is a panoramic portrait of the experience, both individual and collective, of the pandemic.

The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal

Arts & Photography

HARPER/COLLINS

The Yellow Book : A Traveller's Diary

Harpercollins

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