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Amitava Kumar

The Lovers

Amitava Kumar

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English
Aleph Book Company
30 June 2017
Zoroastrianism
Theovers is about a man in search of aove story. This man, our narrator, is Kailash”a new immigrant, eager to shine. His friends teasingly call him Kalashnikov and sometimes AK-47, even AK. In his account of his years at a university in New York, AK takes us through the bittersweet arc of youth andove. There is discovery and disappointment. There are the brilliant women, Jennifer and Nina and Cai Yan. There is the political texture of campusife and the charismatic professor overseeing these young men and women, Ehsaan Ali (modelled on the real-life Eqbal Ahmad). Manifest in AK's first years and firstoves is the wild enthusiasm of youth, its idealism, chaotic desires and confusions.

A decidedly modern novel that melds story and reportage, anecdote and annotation, picture and text, fragment and essay, Theovers reminds us of the works of John Berger and Teju Cole. Funny, meditative and shot through with waves ofonging, the book explores feelings of discomfort about cultural misunderstandings and theack of clarity between men and women. At heart though, it is an investigation ofove”""love despite, or in spite of;ove beyond and across dividingines'.
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Imprint:   Aleph Book Company
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   472g
ISBN:   9789386021007
ISBN 10:   9386021005
Pages:   264
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
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Publisher's Status:   Active

Amitava Kumar is the author of A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna; Home Products, which was shortlisted for the Crossword Prize; and A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, which the New York Times described as a ‘perceptive and soulful...meditation on the global war on terror.

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