Amit Majmudar
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English
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When Mala and Ronak learn that their mother has only a few months to live, they are reluctantly pulled back into the midwestern world of their Indian immigrant parents--a diaspora of prosperous doctors and engineers who have successfully managed to keep faith with the old world while claiming the prizes of the new. More successfully than their children--equally ill at ease with Holi and Christmas, bhaji and barbecue, they are mysteries to their parents...
2) Partitions
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A stunning first novel, set during the violent 1947 partition of India, about uprooted children and their journeys to safety.
As India is rent into two nations, communal violence breaks out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of refugees flee from blood and chaos.
At an overrun train station, Shankar and Keshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and join the human mass to go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran...
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English
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Shortly
after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer
Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one
of the twins had a potentially fatal congenital heart defect.
Written in
the form of an extended letter, Twin A recounts the epic story of the
open-heart surgeries, complications, and prolonged recoveries that Majmudar's
son survived in infancy and early childhood. But the narrative turns...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Dothead is an exploration of selfhood both intense and exhilarating. Within the first pages, Amit Majmudar asserts the claims of both the self and the other: the title poem shows us the place of an Indian American teenager in the bland surround of a mostly white peer group, partaking of imagery from the poet’s Hindu tradition; the very next poem is a fanciful autobiography, relying for its imagery on the religious tradition of Islam. From poems...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The prize-winning poet reflects on our spiritual loneliness, and on the ties that both bind us and sustain us in a fractured world. With his dazzling ability to set words spinning, Amit Majmudar brings us poems that sharpen both wit and knives as he examines our "life in solitary." Dividing the book into short sections around themes (Identity, Love, Grief, Art, History, Imperialism, Incarceration), and anchoring it with the stunning long poem "Letters...
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, strikingly immediate and elegant verse translation of the classic, with an introduction and helpful guides to each section, by the rising American poet. Born in the United States into a secularized Hindu family, Amit Majmudar puzzled over the many religious traditions on offer, and found that the Bhagavad Gita had much to teach him with its 'song of multiplicities.' Chief among them is that 'its own assertions aren't as important as the...