{"product_id":"a-strange-and-sublime-address-isbn-9781681378084","title":"A Strange and Sublime Address","description":"\u003cb\u003eWriter and musician Amit Chaudhuri’s elegant debut novel, in which an Indian ten-year-old experiences the entirely distinct experiences of life in Bombay, where his family lives, and Calcutta, where he visits relatives during his summer vacation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTen-year-old Sandeep lives in a high-rise in Bombay, where his father  has an important job that keeps him busy all the time. Come summer,  Sandeep and his mother travel to Calcutta to spend time with his aunt,  his self-absorbed and improvident uncle, and Abhi, his favorite cousin.  His relatives’ house is shadowy and rambling; the vast city around it  ramshackle and alluring. They fascinate curious, observant Sandeep.  Days pass; the heat grows; the rains come; the visit ends. In the  winter, Sandeep and his family return to Calcutta—and encounter an  unexpected turn of events. But Sandeep has arrived at a new sense of  things, an understanding of how the marvelous inheres in the mundane,  that will be his, we feel, for good.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once delicate and incisive, \u003ci\u003eA Strange and Sublime Address\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in both immersing us in a boy’s inner world and depicting that  boy and his world from outside. It was Amit Chaudhuri’s first book, the  work of a novelist whose striking originality of conception would  subsequently become ever more clear. The three decades since the  publication of \u003ci\u003eA Strange and Sublime Address\u003c\/i\u003e have only confirmed its appeal and poetry.\"Those who are always rushing toward the 'magical realism' of a Rushdie should read Chaudhuri: here is real magic instead.\" —James Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I read the book in one sitting and greatly enjoyed it.\" —Satyajit Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No lover of literature will fail to love these vivid novels by a master of prose.\" —Annie Dillard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through innovative metaphors and images, he brings the simplest aspects of life—a bath, a drive, an illness—to a new level.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sentence by sentence, Amit Chaudhuri is a precise, sensual writer with a great gift for storytelling...at once radiant and revealing.\" —Ann Beattie\u003cb\u003eAmit Chaudhuri\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFriend of My Youth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSojourn\u003c\/i\u003e; a work of memoir and music criticism, \u003ci\u003eFinding the Raga\u003c\/i\u003e; and the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eSweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985–2023\u003c\/i\u003e.   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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003e 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.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299816657125,"sku":"NP9781681378084","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681378084.jpg?v=1767720821","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-strange-and-sublime-address-isbn-9781681378084","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}