Amitava Kumar is a highly acclaimed writer and journalist. His works include, among others, the celebrated Husband of a Fanatic and A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, as well as the widely lauded novel Immigrant, Montana (published in India as The Lovers), chosen among the best books of the year by both the New Yorker and the New York Times. Amitava has been the recipient of numerous awards and writing residencies, most recently the Guggenheim Fellowship. He currently teaches at Vassar College, New York.
Amitava Kumar’s The Blue Book, The Yellow Book and The Green Book are represented by A Suitable Agency.
Read reviews of The Blue Book here and reviews of The Yellow Book here.
Amitava Kumar's Books
The Yellow Book: A Traveller's Diary
One day passes. Then another. A whole succession of days turning into months and years. How to mark our separate days? The places we have been. Our individual passions, our pain. Against the blurring of years, the clarity of a record. And even amidst crises, how to keep creativity alive?
The Blue Book
The Blue Book is a writer's artistic response to our present world: one that has bestowed upon us countless deaths from a virus, a flood of fake news, but also love in the face of loss, travels through diverse landscapes, and - if we care to notice - visions of blazing beauty.