“upamanyu chatterjee”

Agastya Sen is a young Indian civil servant whose imagination is dominated by women literature and soft drugs. As the novel opens he has been posted to the small provincial town of Madna. English August is a funny, wryly observed account of Agastya Sen's year in the sticks.... More

In this sequel to Upamanyu Chatterjee’s debut novel, English, August, Agastya Sen—older, funnier, more beleaguered, almost endearing—and some of his friends are back. Comic and Kafkaesque, The Mammaries of the Welfare State is a masterwork of satire by a major writer at the height of his power... More

‘The grotesquery of the sexual and the spiritual pervades the pages of Weight Loss . . . An unrepentant pornographer’s bumpy road to salvation is a delight in Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel’—India TodayInnocent and unremarkable, but for his near crippling obsessions with sex and running, ... More

A fascinating portrayal of life in an Indian middle-class family by the best-selling author of English, AugustUpamanyu Chatterjee’s second novel brilliantly recreates life in an average Indian family at the end of the twentieth century. Jamun, the central character, is a young man, unmarried, adri... More

A major motion picture now! Agastya Sen is a young civil servant whose imagination is dominated by women, literature and soft drugs. As the novel opens, he has been posted to the small town of Madna. English August is a funny, wryly observed account of Agastya Sen's year in the sticks. 'A... More

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 incom... More