- Fiction, Civil service, Young men, City and town life
Agastya Sen, nicknamed August by his school friends, is a young civil servant who has been posted as the assistant commissioner under training in a small provincial town called Madna.
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Cool, contemplative, character-led and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 326
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781590171790
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