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This Place

by Amitabha Bagchi

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  Jeevan Sharma, an Indian immigrant in the US and a former taxi driver, manages his Pakistani landlord Shabbir Ahmad`s accounts in return for rent free accommodation. The quiet rhythm of his days in Baltimore is punctuated only by interactions with his neighbors on 26th Street Miss Lucy, an old black lady who makes him pancakes, a World War II veteran, Henry and his dog Oscar and Matthew and Kay, a married couple in their late twenties, who are negotiating a difficult relationship. Then two things happen to throw his life into disarray the sudden arrival of Sunita, a young woman who has walked away from a cheating husband and the decision by the city of Baltimore to demolish the block that they live in. Will Jeevan be able to protect his old and in firm friends from the power of the City and Shabbir`s greed? Can his settled solitude with stand the possibility of happiness with someone else? This Place is a novel about a group of people for whom neighborhood means more than simply living next to each other. It is a book about accepting and fighting against impermanence. It is also a book about South Asians in America at the end of the twentieth century.
About the AuthorAmitabha Bagchi is the author of two novels, above Average (2007) and The Householder(2012), both of which were published to critical and popular acclaim.

ISBN - 9789351160182
 


Pages : 260
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