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082			_a823.954 _bChaE
100			_aChatterjee, Upamanyu
245			_aEnglish, August : _b An Indian Story / _cUpamanyu Chatterjee and Akhil Sharma
260			_aLondon : _bFaber and Faber, _c©1988.
300			_axi, 326p.
500			_aAgastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job, which takes him to Madna - a town with the highest temperatures in India - deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be much easier than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India.
650			_aLiterature _xEnglish
650			_aFiction
700			_aSharma, Akhil
942			_cBK
999			_c6212 _d6212