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English, August: An Indian Story

by Upamanyu Chatterjee

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Paperback · 336 pages New York Review Books · 2006

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English, August

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be a lot easier for August than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Like A Confederacy of Dunces and The Catcher in the Rye, it is both an inspired and hilarious satire and a timeless story of self-discovery.

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Publisher
New York Review Books
Author
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Format
Paperback
Published
Apr 4, 2006
ISBN-13
9781590171790
ISBN-10
1590171799
Pages
336
Carton quantity
28 copies
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