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Nobody Does the Right Thing: A Novel
Amitava Kumar
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Description for Nobody Does the Right Thing: A Novel
Paperback. A novel packed with telling details and anecdotes about life in contemporary India, set in the rural villages of Bihar and the metropolises of Bombay and Delhi. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 18. Weight in Grams: 327.
A young poet is killed by her lover, a politician, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Soon afterward, across India in Bombay, an idealistic journalist is hired by a movie director to write a Bollywood screenplay about the murdered poet. Research for the script takes the writer, Binod, back to Bihar, where he and his cousin Rabinder were raised. While the high-minded Binod struggles to turn the poet’s murder into a steamy tale about small towns, desire, and intrigue, Rabinder sits in a Bihari jail cell, having been arrested for distributing pornography through a cybercafé. Rabinder dreams of a ... Read more
A young poet is killed by her lover, a politician, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Soon afterward, across India in Bombay, an idealistic journalist is hired by a movie director to write a Bollywood screenplay about the murdered poet. Research for the script takes the writer, Binod, back to Bihar, where he and his cousin Rabinder were raised. While the high-minded Binod struggles to turn the poet’s murder into a steamy tale about small towns, desire, and intrigue, Rabinder sits in a Bihari jail cell, having been arrested for distributing pornography through a cybercafé. Rabinder dreams of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822346821
SKU
V9780822346821
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About Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is a novelist, poet, journalist, and Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of Husband of a Fanatic, a New York Times “Editors’ Choice”; Bombay-London-New York, a New Statesman (UK) “Book of the Year”; and Passport Photos. He is the editor of several books, including Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate, The Humour and ... Read more
Reviews for Nobody Does the Right Thing: A Novel
“Nobody Does the Right Thing imaginatively portrays the forces shaping contemporary India, and it is a remarkable reader of mass culture and popular narrative forms, of the worlds of Hindi cinema, pulp fiction, sensational journalism, and globalized media.”—Siddhartha Deb, author of An Outline of the Republic and The Point of Return “Nobody Does the Right Thing is a deeply compassionate ... Read more