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"""Those who are always rushing toward the 'magical realism' of a Rushdie should read Chaudhuri: here is real magic instead."" —James Wood, The Guardian ""I read the book in one sitting and greatly enjoyed it."" —Satyajit Ray ""Chaudhuri writes precisely, carefully, trying to capture in rhythms of his prose the faded happiness of things, the strange, pure remembered moments."" —Carmen Callil and Colm Toíbín, The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 ""To read Chaudhuri is to offer yourself the unmitigated pleasure of being in the company of the absolutely first rate, to see again the possibilities of the novel as an art form."" —Jim Harrison ""No lover of literature will fail to love these vivid novels by a master of prose."" —Annie Dillard ""Through innovative metaphors and images, he brings the simplest aspects of life—a bath, a drive, an illness—to a new level."" —The Boston Review ""Sentence by sentence, Amit Chaudhuri is a precise, sensual writer with a great gift for storytelling...at once radiant and revealing."" —Ann Beattie"

""Those who are always rushing toward the 'magical realism' of a Rushdie should read Chaudhuri: here is real magic instead."" —James Wood, The Guardian ""I read the book in one sitting and greatly enjoyed it."" —Satyajit Ray ""Chaudhuri writes precisely, carefully, trying to capture in rhythms of his prose the faded happiness of things, the strange, pure remembered moments."" —Carmen Callil and Colm Toíbín, The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 ""To read Chaudhuri is to offer yourself the unmitigated pleasure of being in the company of the absolutely first rate, to see again the possibilities of the novel as an art form."" —Jim Harrison ""No lover of literature will fail to love these vivid novels by a master of prose."" —Annie Dillard ""Through innovative metaphors and images, he brings the simplest aspects of life—a bath, a drive, an illness—to a new level."" —The Boston Review ""Sentence by sentence, Amit Chaudhuri is a precise, sensual writer with a great gift for storytelling...at once radiant and revealing."" —Ann Beattie

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Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, and musician. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is the author of more than a dozen books, several of which are available from NYRB, including the novels Friend of My Youth and Sojourn; a work of memoir and music criticism, Finding the Raga; and the poetry collection Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985–2023. Formerly a professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia, Chaudhuri is now a professor of creative writing and the director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical at Ashoka University. Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.

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