The Assassination of Indira Gandhi by Upamanyu Chatterjee is a collection of 12 stories which investigate the absurd comedy and horrors of the human condition.
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi by Upamanyu Chatterjee is a collection of 12 stories which investigate the absurd comedy and horrors of the human condition.
For over three decades, Upamanyu Chatterjee’s has been an utterly distinctive and daring literary voice, with few equals among contemporary writers of fiction. In the twelve long stories that comprise this volume, he investigates, as only he can, the absurd comedy and the grand horrors of the human condition.
The book opens with his most recent story, written in 2018, which follows Thomas Roe, the much feted English Ambassador to the court of Jahangir, as he bumbles through a subcontinent far larger than his imagination can accommodate; and it concludes with the title story, written in 1985, in which a young Sikh sequestered in his parents’ home in Mussoorie, and debilitated by jaundice and ennui, listens disinterestedly to news of Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi. In the pages between the two, a variety of lives and situations unfold: a middle-class family in New Delhi makes some surprising discoveries about Shakespeare, race, wealth, and its youngest daughter; mystery killings in small-town Madna teach an innocent civil servant some lessons about the Indian state; the classmates of a thirteen-year-old girl learn of her brutal murder; a boy has his revenge on a sexual predator, while another, far away, seeks release from the job of cleaning the dry latrine in his school; a single man in Bombay brings home a pair of sparrows; a European woman gives up on life in a South Delhi barsati; one hundred and thirty children disappear from a German village visited by a rat-catcher.
A magisterial collection of stories–each as rich as a novel–The Assassination of Indira Gandhi is destined to become a classic of Indian literature.
Author:
Upamanyu Chatterjee
ISBN:
9789388874397
Binding:
Hardback
Pages:
352
Year of Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Speaking Tiger
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Author
The author was born in 1959 in Patna. He spent over thirty calm and undistinguished years in the Indian Administrative Service; during that time, he wrote six novels—when no one was looking. He retired (early and honourably) in 2016 to devote himself full time to running the household. He has one wife and two daughters. He enjoys several solitary occupations.
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