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...Staff writer Amit R. Paley can be reached at paley@fas.harvard.edu...
...title of Amit Chaudhuri's latest novel, A New World, is somewhat misleading. The book seems to explore the difficulty in translating a traditional Indian upbringing to a modern Western life. However, A New World does not substantively explore Indian emigrant Jayojit Chatterjee's struggle to conquer life in his new world, the world of an American academic in the Midwest. Instead, the novel is a celebration of the old world Jayojit has left behind. A New World traces Jayojit's longings for the old world of his parents' home in Calcutta, longings that seem to surprise even Jayojit himself...
...Amit Chaudhuri...
...tripled revenues in each year of its 3 1/2 years of existence. "But there were some huge opportunities" to expand even more rapidly, says co-founder Adeeb Shana'a, "and if we didn't move fast enough, we would lose the potential." Shana'a and co-founder Amit Desai had been determined to shun outside investment, but now they were ready to consider it, and they put out feelers to a venture-capital firm. The financiers offered an introduction to one of their client companies. That turned out to be Personify--somewhat to the shock of Anubis, which had been...
Like a verbose Raymond Carver, author Amit Chaudhuri concerns himself with details of the everyday like the afternoon light as it casts a shadow against a dusty bureau. Chaudhuri's novels are more intimate and optimistic than Carver's tales of people mired in middle age depression. They focus on the unexceptional-impressions of people's lives rather than plot-driven Hollywood cliffhangers with dazzling denouements. There may be an occasional epiphany, a sudden realization about particular relationships between characters, but the "aha" factor is minute and quite understated. The arc of the three novels is practically flat, with...