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"A Bombay, dans les années 1980, Shyamji, le fils d'un chanteur classique de renom, donne des leçons de musique à l'épouse d'un dirigeant d'entreprise ainsi qu'à leur fils.--[Memento]."
""In 1980s Bombay, a highly regarded voice teacher and his affluent sixteen-year-old student enter into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in their lives, and the lives of their families ..." (4e de couv.)."
"Shyanmji has music in his blood, for his father was the acclaimed heavenly singer and guru, Ram Lal. But Shyam Lal is not his father and knows he never will be."
""In 1980s Bombay, a highly regarded voice teacher and his affluent sixteen-year-old student enter into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in their lives, and the lives of their families ..."--P. [4] of cover."@en
""The award-winning author of A New World now gives us an incantatory novel - at once plaintive and comic - about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future." "Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained by his father in the classical idiom but happily engaged in teaching the more popular songs to well-to-do women, whose modern way of life he covets. Sixteen-year-old Nirmalya Sengupta is the romantically rebellious scion of an affluent family who wants only to study Indian classical music. With a little push from Nirmalya's mother (Shyam's prize pupil), Shyam agrees to accept Nirmalya as his student, entering into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in both their lives. As the novel unfolds, we see how their two families come to challenge and change each other, and how student and teacher slowly mesh their differing visions of the world, and what place music holds in it." "With exquisite sensuous detail, with quiet humor generosity, and unsentimental poignancy, The Immortals gives us a luminous portrait of the spiritual and emotional force of a revered Indian tradition, of two fundamentally different but intricately intertwined families, and of a society choosing between the old and the new"--Jacket."@en
"Shyamji has music in his blood, for his father was the acclaimed 'heavenly singer' and guru, Ram Lal. But Shyam Lal is not his father, and knows he never will be. Mallika Sengupta's voice could have made her famous, but being the wife of a successful businessman is a full-time occupation in itself. Mallika's son, Nirmalya, believes in suffering for his art, and for him, all compromise is failure: those with talent should be true to that talent. No matter what. Written in haunting, melodic prose, The Immortals tells the story of Shyam, Mallika and Nirmalya: their relationships, their lives, the."@en
""In 1980s Bombay, a highly regarded voice teacher and his affluent sixteen-year-old student enter into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in their lives, and the lives of their families ..."--Page 4 of cover."@en

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"Fiction"
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"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Domestic fiction"@en
"Domestic fiction"
"Musical fiction"
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"Mrs. Sengupta will hoch hinaus : Roman"
"The immortals"@en
"The immortals"
"Mrs. Sengupta will hoch hinaus Roman"
"Mrs Sengupta will hoch hinaus : Roman"
"Les immortels"
"The immortals : [a novel]"

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