TY - BOOK AU - Chaudhuri, Amit TI - A strange and sublime address and nine stories SN - 9780143419440 U1 - 823.914 PY - 1991/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books KW - Fiction KW - Literary Fiction KW - Indian Literature N1 - https://www.penguin.co.in/book/a-strange-and-sublime-address N2 - Ten-year-old Sandeep, an only child in a Bombay high-rise, visits his extended family in Calcutta during the school holidays-leaving the smooth silence of his parents’ modern flat for a world of enchantment in his uncle’s home. Everything is different here. In a short novel filled with indelible characters, we witness the beautiful ordinariness of daily life in a middle-class family dependent on a failing business. Whether they are push-starting a stubborn Ambassador, combating heatwaves and thunderstorms or saying their prayers, the young narrator’s keen eye misses nothing ER -