A New World
- List Price: $22.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish date: 10/01/2000
Description:
A New World tells the story of Jayojit Chatterjee, an economist who has emigrated to the U.S. and works in a university in the Midwest. As the book opens, Chatterjee is returning to Calcutta to visit his elderly parents, bringing with him his young son Vikram, whom he recently secured custody of from his estranged wife, and who barely knows his grandparents or his father's homeland.
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Through Vikram's eyes we see the rituals and customs of middle-class social and family life in contemporary India revealed in new and unexpected ways. A New World not only shows us India in another guise, but also constitutes a profound meditation on one of the great issues of our time: the location (and dislocation) of culture in the post-colonial age.
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