Immortals, The

Amit Chaudhuri’s highly acclaimed novel now in a new superbly designed paperback format. Selling Points: A New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe and Irish Times Critics’ Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the DSC Literature Prize, and the Crossword Vodafone Prize. ‘ A command performance. Even in the context of contemporary Indian writing in English, much of which is outstanding, Chaudhuri is the best, yet again he has shown that his fiction, which draws on themes of family and time, is as real as it is beautiful’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times. The Book: The Immortals tells the story of two families bound by music. Shyamji is the son of the acclaimed classical singer Ram Lal. But Shyam Lal is not his father - and knows he never will be. His student, Mallika Sengupta, is a talented singer who has never pushed herself while her son Nirmalya, also Shyamji’s student, believes in suffering for his art and judges Shyam Lal for selling out. Written in haunting, melodic prose, The Immortals is an acutely observed and lyrical novel about the place of art in the modern world.