A New World

Amit Chaudhuri

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9780571361564
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his parents. Jayojit is no more accustomed to spending time alone with Bonny - who lives with his mother in California - than he is with the Admiral and his wife, whose daily rhythms have become so synchronized as to become completely foreign to their son.

Together, the unlikely foursome struggles to pass the protracted hours of summer, each in his or her own way mourning Jayojit's failed marriage. Written with depth and tenderness, A New World goes right to the heart of a family, making vividly alive their hopes, desires and regrets.

Table of contents

• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• He had come back in April
• The Admiral had a car
• It was simple—Jayojit wanted to spend
• The luchis continued to appear
• Sometimes, in the afternoon, Jayojit came out
• That afternoon, he went out for a walk again
• The dhobi—returning washed and ironed clothes
• Early in the morning, when the Admiral and his wife
• When evening came, loud conversations
• The next morning Jayojit woke up at eight
• Jayojit and Amala had married eleven years ago
• The next morning, the first day of the last week of May
• Heat, cold, heat, cold …
• Without his spectacles Jayojit looked blank
• The 29th of May
• ‘The boy’s still sniffling, isn’t he?’
• ‘What a commotion!’
• ‘Baba,’ said Jayojit, counting the foils of the traveller’s cheques
• ‘He doesn’t like fish,’ said Mrs Chatterjee
• Jayojit had to reconfirm the Bangladesh Biman tickets
• Jayojit’s mother was in the kitchen
• Jayojit overslept for some reason
• About the Author
• Praise for Amit Chaudhuri
• By the Same Author
• Copyright