Description
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
An explosive, genre-defying reinvention of the 'immigrant' novel from Amitava Kumar.
About the Author
Amitava Kumar is a journalist and author of several works of prize-winning literary non-fiction and two novels. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, the New Yorker, and Granta ('Pyre' was selected by Jonathan Franzen for The Best American Essays 2016). He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and Ford Fellowship in Literature, and is a board member at the Asian American Writers Workshop. He is currently Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571339617
Author Amitava Kumar
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 253g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 19mm
