"Three novels by an Indian writer, featuring Indians at home and abroad. In the title novel, the protagonist is a rebellious young man who has joined the communist party, in Afternoon Raag he is an Indian student in Oxford, and in A Strange and Sublime Address he is a small boy visiting family in Calcutta."@en
"Three novels by an Indian writer, featuring Indians at home and abroad. In the title novel, the protagonist is a rebellious young man who has joined the communist party, in Afternoon Raag he is an Indian student in Oxford, and in A Strange and Sublime Address he is a small boy visiting family in Calcutta."
"A boy's visit with relatives conjures the melancholy comforts of family ; an Indian student at an English university contemplates the conflicted relationship between an immigrant and his homeland; and the task of marrying off a 'problem' son illuminates the complex community of cultures that is modern Calcutta."@en