English, August : an Indian story / Upamanyu Chatterjee ; introduction by Akhil Sharma.

Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS. Agastya's first assignment is to th...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Chatterjee, Upamanyu
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York Review Books, c2006.
Series:	New York Review Books classics.
Subjects:	Young men > Fiction. Civil service > Fiction. City and town life > Fiction. India > Fiction. Humorous fiction. Bildungsromans.