My Beloved Life
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid.
Amitava Kumar es un aclamado autor cuyas obras profundizan en los complejos temas de la identidad, el exilio y la colisión cultural. Su prosa, a menudo entrelazada con la reflexión personal y la crítica social, explora las tensiones entre el hogar y lo extranjero, la tradición y la modernidad. El estilo de Kumar es a la vez incisivo y poético, capturando los matices de la experiencia humana con aguda inteligencia y empatía. Su obra invita a los lectores a contemplar las profundas cuestiones que dan forma a nuestro mundo interconectado.



An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid.
A 'non-fiction novel' about lies and violence, ranging across Trump and Modi, the narrator's childhood experience of communal violence in India, and his wife's work as a psychologist.
A New York Times Book of the Year Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration - a country that is now unsure of the migrant's place in the nation's fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he's in a constant state of exile