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No Direction Rome

By Kaushik Barua

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About the book

‘Violently funny and epically tragic, Barua’s writing is tragicomic genius. F***ing brilliant.’ – Janice Pariat, author of Boats on Land and Seahorse A portrait of the stoner as a young man. Krantik is cynical, jaded and utterly bored. He’s also a paranoid hypochondriac. An Indian working in Rome, he drifts aimlessly through a failed engagement with the assistance of several intoxicants and a short-lived love affair. Krantik’s personal revelations and delusions of grandeur – exquisitely funny and devastatingly poignant – expose the hollowness of social mores and the anxieties of a rootless generation. This is a clever, bizarre tour de force, part noir, part philosophical and entirely likable. Kerouac meets Joyce meets Harold & Kumar meets Jonathan Lethem in this wildly inventive love letter to a city that critically acclaimed author Kaushik Barua has lived in and loved for years.

Pages: 200

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Kaushik Barua

Kaushik Barua is the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar award for his first book, Windhorse, published by HarperCollins India in 2013. He is currently based in Rome, where he works with the United Nations. He has worked over the last decade in the development sector, supporting development projects across South Asia and West Africa. He graduated in economics from St. Stephen’s College in New Delhi and subsequently studied international politics and economics at the London School of Economics.

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