Freedom song - Amit Chaudhuri

'The lives and reminiscences of Khuku and her husband Shib, a couple in their sixties, and of Khuku's younger, less prosperous brother, Bhola, and the family's marriage plans for their unambitious son Bhaskar make up the novel . . . In Freedom Song, Amit Chaudhuri has perfected his elegant prose style, delivering an expansive and evocative narrative in a minimalist, fragmented form' Times Literary Supplement

'Chaudhuri writes about India like no on else. Freedom Song is set in Calcutta in winter, but the elliptical prose and oblique plotting add up to a novel of profound and subtle elusiveness. Exquisite and supremely haunting, a work of contemporary fiction by a world-class writer' Robert McCrum, Observer

'Exquisite vignettes of Indian life as inch-perfect as a Vermeer interior' Sunday Telegraph

'This is writing of great precision and economy, each incident, each small revelation about the past, selected like a careful brushstroke' Penelope Lively, Booker Prize winner, Spectator

'An elegant, lyrical meditation on the approach of old age' Independent

'His most accomplished novel so far' Pankaj Mishra, New Statesman