Log in; Entries feed; Comments feed; WordPress.org; About SuperSummary; Write for SuperSummary; Suggest a Title He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009. Photographs by Supriya Kantak. Log in; Entries feed; Comments feed; WordPress.org; About SuperSummary; Write for SuperSummary; Suggest a Title Bombay: Amit Chaudhuri’s Strange and Sublime Address The writer grew up in Bombay, but the city took a few decades to grow on him. Summary: A Strange and Sublime Address, Amit Chaudhuri's first book, features a Bengali boy who spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta. I struggled with Chaudhuri — his goals for fiction are not mine. A Strange and Sublime Address, Amit Chaudhuri's first book, features a Bengali boy who spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta.. Heat waves, thunderstorms, mealtimes, prayer sessions, shopping expeditions and family visits create a shifting background to the shaping of people's lives. A Strange and Sublime Address is the title-novella of this collection of stories. Here are some thoughts after reading Amit Chaudhuri's first novel, A Strange and Sublime Address, which I read in the collection Freedom Song (which is what the page numbers below reference). A Strange and Sublime Address, Amit Chaudhuri's first book, features a Bengali boy who spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta.Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes, prayer-sessions, shopping expeditions and family visits create a shifting background to the shaping of people's lives. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes, prayer-sessions, shopping expeditions and family visits create a shifting background to the shaping of people's lives. Reading Amit Chaudhuri's 'A Strange and Sublime Address' is like sipping vintage wine on a transcontinental flight. Twenty-five years after its initial publication Chaudhuri’s novel about a young boy’s view of family life and the world around him seems as elegant and exquisite and original as it did on its initial publication. A strange and sublime address.. [Amit Chaudhuri] -- During the school holidays, Sandeep exchanges the smooth silence of his parents' modern flat in Bombay for a world of enchantment in his uncle's colourful household in Calcutta. These can almost be read as fourteen individual stories, for the needle that runs through them is threadbare. You're in the same seat seemingly not having gone anywhere but mysteriously transported without your own knowledge to another place, another time. The novella itself comprises 14 short chapters. Get this from a library! A Strange and Sublime Address, Amit Chaudhuri's first book, features a Bengali boy who spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta. A Strange and Sublime Address and An Afternoon Raag are both about temporary displacement; there is no suggestion that Bombay will seem different to the protagonists when they return to the city. We’re considering expanding this synopsis into a full-length study guide to deepen your comprehension of the book and why it's important. The novella itself comprises 14 short chapters. Meta. This summary of A Strange and Sublime Address includes a complete plot overview – spoilers included!