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Amit Chaudhuris stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marriage to a teenaged poet who develops a relationship with a lonely widower from a singing teacher struggling to make a living out of the boredom of his students to a gauche teenager desperate to hurdle past his adolescence. Ripe with subtlety elegance and deep feeling this is vintage Chaudhuri. About the Author Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five novels the latest of which is The Immortals. Among the many prizes he has won for his fiction are the Commonwealth Literature Prize the Betty Trask Prize the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is also a highly respected critic a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. Amit Chaudhuri lives in Kolkata and Norwich and is also an acclaimed musician.