The English Problem (Hardcover)

Beena Kamlani

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Random House USA Inc, New York, 2025

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Hardcover. In this stunning debut novel, a young Indian man comes to England determined to learn British law so he can use it to help the independence movement back home-but the insidiousness of colonialism as well as a sexual awakening get in his way.A young Indian man is tapped to help his country's fight for freedom-but his heart engages him in a different war."Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great convulsions of history."-Joseph O'Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of GodwinShiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India. But he is no ordinary young man. Shiv has been personally chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to come to England, learn their laws, and then return home and help drive the British out of India. Before he leaves, his family insists he fulfill his arranged marriage, and he is hastily betrothed to a young woman he hardly knows.He arrives in London and soon discovers a world he is both repelled by and drawn to. Shiv knows his duty: get in, learn the letter of the law, get out. But as anyone who has ever lived in a British colony can tell you, "the English Problem" is multifaceted. The racist colonialism of "the empire on which the sun never sets" seeps into everything-not just landed territories, but territories of the mind: literature, language, religion, sexuality, self-identity. Soon the people Shiv sought to be liberated from will be the people he desperately wants to be a part of. In the end, Shiv must fight not only for his country's liberation but also his own.Set against the backdrop of the Indian independence movement, with appearances by historical figures such as Virginia and Leonard Woolf and Mahatma Gandhi, The English Problem is so self-assured and ambitious, it is hard to believe it is a debut. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
The English Problem (Hardcover)
Autore
Beena Kamlani
Editore
Random House USA Inc, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0593798465
ISBN 13
9780593798461

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