My Beloved Life
Amitava Kumar
My Beloved Life
Amitava Kumar
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Description
An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid.
This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling. A father, a daughter, a crime, a country being born, a migration, another country, a plague. “We are in touch with a great astonishing mystery when we put honest words down on paper to register a life and to offer witness. Everything else is ordinary,” Kumar writes. His novel offers magnificent witness, and is not ordinary but extraordinary.
Always deeply human, the heart is everywhere in these pages . . . Kumar's beautiful, truthful fiction rings with gratitude and anticipated grief.
Shows what good fiction can achieve . . . A highly sophisticated, self-aware novel from a writer operating at the peak of his powers
A novel of vaulting ambition and tenderness, about how histories, both personal and national, are built, refracted and revised.
Amitava Kumar has the precious ability to write across borders and cultures.
A majestic Indian family saga in successive bildungsroman narratives of a father and daughter . . . Kumar excels at blending mysticism and a refined cosmopolitan perspective.
An immersive, moving portrait . . . both of India over 85 years and of the whipsawing experience of being an Indian citizen of the larger world . . . that steadily gathers intensity, vividness, and surprise.
Amitava Kumar was born in Ara, India, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna. He is the author of the novels Immigrant, Montana and My Beloved Life, as well as several other books of non-fiction and fiction. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York and teaches at Vassar College.
This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling. A father, a daughter, a crime, a country being born, a migration, another country, a plague. “We are in touch with a great astonishing mystery when we put honest words down on paper to register a life and to offer witness. Everything else is ordinary,” Kumar writes. His novel offers magnificent witness, and is not ordinary but extraordinary.
Always deeply human, the heart is everywhere in these pages . . . Kumar's beautiful, truthful fiction rings with gratitude and anticipated grief.
Shows what good fiction can achieve . . . A highly sophisticated, self-aware novel from a writer operating at the peak of his powers
A novel of vaulting ambition and tenderness, about how histories, both personal and national, are built, refracted and revised.
Amitava Kumar has the precious ability to write across borders and cultures.
A majestic Indian family saga in successive bildungsroman narratives of a father and daughter . . . Kumar excels at blending mysticism and a refined cosmopolitan perspective.
An immersive, moving portrait . . . both of India over 85 years and of the whipsawing experience of being an Indian citizen of the larger world . . . that steadily gathers intensity, vividness, and surprise.
Amitava Kumar was born in Ara, India, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna. He is the author of the novels Immigrant, Montana and My Beloved Life, as well as several other books of non-fiction and fiction. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York and teaches at Vassar College.