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Carregando... English, August (original: 1988; edição: 1988)de Upamanyu Chatterjee
Detalhes da ObraEnglish, August: An Indian Story de Upamanyu Chatterjee (1988)
  
Reading list (25) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. What writing! Not a moment when the narrative gets dull. A journey of self discovery that's at once humorous, satirical, and makes you feel uncomfortable because of the number of ways it is relatable. Can read this one again and again. (  ) vishalshah_lt | Jun 8, 2020 |  I remember this book as a comic masterpiece. I had read it about 18 years ago - yet remember Madna and the protagonist's hilarious flirt with his own life and the surrounding. (  ) pawanmishra | Nov 9, 2016 | Comment à-t-on pu affubler un texte moins idiot qu'il en a l'air un titre aussi stupide? Pavillon est une collection sérieuse et souvent de haut niveau... Et on a réussi à traduire "English August" (référence à l'acculturation tragicomique du héros ) en un titre débile (affublé d'une couverture consternante). C'en est à se demander si l'éditeur a LU le texte... (  ) Nikoz | Oct 1, 2016 | for humor 5/5.....but there were many pages which bored me... some places were too dragging.. when humor was there it was too good ... i couldn't control my laugh.... overall 3/5 :) ( ) PallaviSharma | May 9, 2016 | Hard to give a star rating for this book. Just because it's not for me, doesn't mean it is not a good book. I tried. I really did to finish this book, but found I needed far more background in Indian history and life to understand this book. There’s a lot of detail, and it’s clear that the author really knows his subject. But it is a book for people who have previously been immersed in Indian literature, not popular novels. ( ) brangwinn | Jan 14, 2015 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job, which takes him to Madna - a town with the highest temperatures in India - deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be much easier than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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