{"product_id":"the-english-problem-hardcover","title":"The English Problem - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBeena Kamlani\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young Indian man is tapped to help his country's fight for freedom--but his heart engages him in a different war.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great convulsions of history.\"--Joseph O'Neill, PEN\/Faulkner Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGodwin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India. But he is no ordinary young man. Shiv has been personally chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to come to England, learn their laws, and then return home and help drive the British out of India. Before he leaves, his family insists he fulfill his arranged marriage, and he is hastily betrothed to a young woman he hardly knows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe arrives in London and soon discovers a world he is both repelled by and drawn to. Shiv knows his duty: get in, learn the letter of the law, get out. But as anyone who has ever lived in a British colony can tell you, \"the English Problem\" is multifaceted. The racist colonialism of \"the empire on which the sun never sets\" seeps into everything--not just landed territories, but territories of the mind: literature, language, religion, sexuality, self-identity. Soon the people Shiv sought to be liberated from will be the people he desperately wants to be a part of. In the end, Shiv must fight not only for his country's liberation but also his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the backdrop of the Indian independence movement, with appearances by historical figures such as Virginia and Leonard Woolf and Mahatma Gandhi, \u003ci\u003eThe English Problem\u003c\/i\u003e is so self-assured and ambitious, it is hard to believe it is a debut.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeena Kamlani\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review; Ploughshares; Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, \u003c\/i\u003eeds. Gillan (1999); \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up Ethnic in America, \u003c\/i\u003eeds. Gillan (2000); \u003ci\u003eThe Lifted Brow \u003c\/i\u003e(2008); \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today;\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House\/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook. A former senior editor for the Penguin Group, she taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades and was presented an award for teaching excellence. \u003ci\u003eThe English Problem\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.46 x 6.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47262946754809,"sku":"9780593798461","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/9xegc2gJM69780593798461.webp?v=1768813764","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-english-problem-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}