The Immortals

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**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra**
Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trainedin the classical idiom but happily teaching more popular songs to well-to-dowomen, whose modern way of life he covets. Sixteen-year-old Nirmalya Senguptais the rebellious scion of an affluent family who wants only to studyIndian classical music. With a little push from her mother, Shyam agrees toaccept Nirmalya as his student, entering into a relationship that will have unexpectedand lasting consequences.


With quiet humor and unsentimental poignancy, The Immortals is a luminousportrait of the spiritual and emotional force of a revered Indian tradition, oftwo fundamentally different but intricately intertwined families, and of a societychoosing between the old and the new.

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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.