About the Book

A MEDITATIVE AND FRAGMENTARY NOVEL ABOUT A WRITER INVITED TO A RESIDENCY IN PARIS, WHERE HE SUBLETS AN APARTMENT IN THE CHATEAU ROUGE AREA AN EXPERIENCE THAT EVENTUALLY LEADS HIM TO A NEWLY EXPANSIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE CITY.
A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little resemblance to his idea of the city. With the passing of time, his disquiet translates into a way of seeking and experiencing a truer, more unlikely Paris.
Chateau Rouge takes up residence in that area before floating freely through the city. It takes its time, exploring tangents, diversions, side streets, creeping into new spaces and remote angles, to open up fresh ground and appraise the city, the experience of travel, otherness and the novel itself anew.

About the Author

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, including Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, as well as four books of essays, three books of poems, two works of non-fiction, a collection of short stories and a critical study of D.H. Lawrence's poetry. He has received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, the Infosys Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the C