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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kumar, Amitava, 1963- author.
Edition:	First Alfred A. Knopf edition.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Description:	304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	East Indians -- United States -- Fiction. College students -- Fiction. Self-realization -- Fiction. Young men -- Fiction. Immigrants -- Fiction. College students. East Indians. Immigrants. Self-realization. Young men. United States. Fiction. Bildungsromans.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11720861

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Varying Form of Title:	Immigrant, lover, Montana, Bihar, a novel, a meditation.
ISBN:	9780525520757 0525520759 9780525436676 9780571339600 0571339603
Notes:	Variant title from book jacket. Originally published in hardcover in India by Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, in 2017. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"The author of the widely praised Lunch with a Bigot now gives us a remarkable novel--reminiscent of Teju Cole, W.G. Sebald, John Berger--about a young new immigrant to the U.S. in search of love: across dividing lines between cultures, between sexes, and between the particular desires of one man and the women he comes to love. The young man is Kailash, from India. His new American friends call him Kalashnikov, AK-47, AK. He takes it all in his stride: he wants to fit in--and more than that, to shine. In the narrative of his years at a university in New York, AK describes the joys and disappointments of his immigrant experience; the unfamiliar political and social textures of campus life; the indelible influence of a charismatic professor--also an immigrant, his personal history as dramatic as AK's is decidedly not; the very different natures of the women he loved, and of himself in and out of love with each of them. Telling his own story, AK is both meditative and the embodiment of the enthusiasm of youth in all its idealism and chaotic desires. His wry, vivid perception of the world he's making his own, and the brilliant melding of story and reportage, anecdote and annotation, picture and text, give us a singularly engaging, insightful, and moving novel--one that explores the varieties and vagaries of cultural misunderstanding, but is, as well, an impassioned investigation of love."--
Other form:	Online version: Kumar, Amitava, 1963- Immigrant, Montana. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 9780525520764
Standard no.:	40028384957

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Summary:	A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK<br> <br> ONE OF THE NEW YORKER 'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR <br> <br> Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kailash comes under the indelible influence of a charismatic professor, and also finds his life reshaped by a series of very different women with whom he recklessly falls in and out of love.<br> <br> Looking back on the formative period of his youth, Kailash's wry, vivid perception of the world he is in, but never quite of, unfurls in a brilliant melding of anecdote and annotation, picture and text. Building a case for himself, both as a good man in spite of his flaws and as an American in defiance of his place of birth, Kailash weaves a story that is at its core an incandescent investigation of love--despite, beyond, and across dividing lines.
Item Description:	Variant title from book jacket. Originally published in hardcover in India by Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, in 2017.
Physical Description:	304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780525520757 0525520759 9780525436676 9780571339600 0571339603