Author Description

Spanning a writing career of over twenty years, acclaimed novelist and authorof Calcutta: Two Years in the City, Amit Chaudhuri, is also one of the mostgifted essayists and critics writing today, whose work has appeared in thepages of many of the most prestigious newspapers and journals in the world,including The London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement,Granta, the Guardian, and the Dublin Review.Collected here for the first time, Telling Tales is a selection of Chaudhuri'smost enduring short non-fiction that showcases his sense of humour, hisidiosyncratic capacity to transform the mundane, his political engagement,and his mastery of words.