Upamanyu Chatterjee
Paperback | Pages: 326 pages Rating: 3.77 | 5185 Users | 386 Reviews
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| Title | : | English, August: An Indian Story |
| Author | : | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 326 pages |
| Published | : | 2006 by New York Review of Books (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
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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.Itemize Books Supposing English, August: An Indian Story
| Original Title: | English, August: An Indian Story |
| ISBN: | 1590171799 (ISBN13: 9781590171790) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Regarding Books English, August: An Indian Story
Ratings: 3.77 From 5185 Users | 386 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books English, August: An Indian Story
The praise on the book cover by authors such as Amit Chaudhuri and others I have truly respected raise expectations from the outset. On the plus side (with effort one can see a plus side), Agastya Sen, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in training, describes the bureaucracy in large villages to intermediate towns and small tribal villages, exposing all of the non-governmental motives for IAS activities in the more remote reaches of the Indian government. Moral character seems spreadI liked the way he wrote the book. Writing random thoughts in presentable way is much more difficult than writing a story. The book is just like flowing thoughts. Can't compare it with "Catcher in the Rye" but it is on the same path. Beautiful picturization of India accommodating western civilization. The background of the book seems old and slightly unfamiliar to me, but It is mainly because I didn't have read more about India just after Independence and it's also missing from our social
The frivolously rude book is written with humor and candor. Cheeky, sarcastic and impregnated with the characters, recognizable to anyone familiar with bureaucracies - sycophant colleagues, overbearing boss, infamous police inspector and unreliable servants makes it convincing and gripping.The book builds around, Agastya, a half-Bengali, half-Goan guy, who procures a bureaucratic post in the Indian civil service and is posted to a rural village for his training. However, the book doesnt feature
Nearly twenty-five years after it was first published, Upamanyu Chatterjees English, August, remains as contemporary, as relevant and as annoyingly brilliant as it was back then, back when it came out of nowhere to light up the literary fiction scene here that was in a post-Rushdie slump. If one were to ask me to do that obnoxious job of summing-up a literary fiction novel, I would base it more or less, on its old blurb. So English, August is a darkly-comic story of Agastya Sen, a young civil
A fresh recruit to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and his friend sit in their car, totally stoned and deliberating the relative merits of being a bureaucrat. Of top importance here is genuine concern of our protagonist's capability in being an efficient administrator. Here is how the conversation goes :Friend : Out there in Madna quite a few people are going to ask you what you're doing in the Administrative Service. Because you don't look the role. You look like a porn film actor, thin
Well, this book was everything I didn't expect it to be. I had very little knowledge about the book to begin with other than the fact that it has bern adapted into an acclaimed movie (which now I need to watch). I had no idea it was a stoner novel, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.The book gets off to a slow start but shapes up beautifully, and some parts are beautiful. Its one of the few Indian novels that I have read that touched upon existentialism, although it does come across as the ramblings
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