Freedom Song

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Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, hasbeen hired to cure a 'sick' sweet factory that doesn't particularly want to becured. Across town, Khuku's brother worries about his son's affiliations withthe Communist Party, but only because they may affect his ever-so-graduallycoalescing marriage prospects.

Freedom Song is a work of fiction that plays with big ideas while evokingthe smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinarybeauty.

Author Bio

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, including Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, as well as three books of essays, two books of poems, and a collection of short stories. He has been awarded the James Tait Black Prize, the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Betty Trask award, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the English Association, and was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize.