Above Average - Paperback

by Amitabha Bagchi (Author)

Arindam Chatterjee is a middle-class Delhi boy with an aptitude for science and maths but the yearning to be the drummer of a rock band. Both of which necessitate his admission to the premier engineering college of India, the IIT, where life revolves as much around proving rarefied mathematical truths as it does chasing the elusive high of rock stardom at the IIT Rock Fest...

Lyrical, spare, and charmingly self-deprecatory Amitabha Bagchi's debut novel is a deeply funny account of growing up intelligent, sensitive, ambitious, and confused. For more on the book, including excerpts, authorspeak and event info, visit us at www. aboveaveragebook. com

Author Biography

Amitabha Bagchi is the author of the bestselling Above Average and DSC Prize-winning Half the Night Is Gone. He has also translated the ghazals of Muneer Niazi into English. Unknown City is his fifth novel.