Reading the uninteresting, Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August : an Indian story

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel . . . is that it be interesting. Henry James, “The Art of Fiction,” 1884 What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing. Gustave Flaubert, Letter to Louise Colet, January 1852.

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Main Author: Scott, Bede.
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Published: 2013
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