September Indian fiction: Six new titles (including Amit Chaudhuri’s) to look forward to
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Château Rouge, Amit Chaudhuri
A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little resemblance to his idea of the city. With the passing of time, his disquiet translates into a way of seeking and experiencing a truer, more unlikely Paris.
Château Rouge takes up residence in that area before floating freely through the city. It takes its time, exploring tangents, diversions, side streets, creeping into new spaces and remote angles, to open up fresh ground and appraise the city, the experience of travel, otherness – and the novel itself – anew.
The Imitation Englishman, Devki Pande
It is 1916, and the First World War is raging across Europe. Madhusudan Chandra Joshi is a young Indian clerk working at the District Courts when he travels to Heidelberg to study law. There, a chance encounter with the mysterious revolutionary Amir Farooqui changes the course of his life.
Drawn into the secretive Hindu–German Conspiracy, a revolutionary gun-running plot organised by Indians living in exile, Madhusudan finds himself caught up in a dangerous international struggle for Indian independence from British colonial rule. As the conspiracy unfolds across India, Europe and America, the outbreak of war makes it increasingly impossible for Madhusudan and Amir to remain in...