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A New York Times Book of the Year
Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year

Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration a country that is now unsure of the migrant's place in the nation's fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he's in a constant state of exile

Immigrant Montana

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    A Paperback / softback by Amitava Kumar

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 2 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9780571339617
      978-0571339617
      ISBN-10 0571339611
      Also in:
      Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A New York Times Book of the Year
      Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year

      Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration a country that is now unsure of the migrant's place in the nation's fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he's in a constant state of exile

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