The Immortals

SKU: 9780571361595
The Immortals

The Immortals

SKU: 9780571361595
Paperback·Ages 18+
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At a glance

✨ Mood
Lyrical, nostalgic, immersive
⏳ Pace
Slow, reflective
🌿 Atmosphere
Cultural, music-infused, richly textured
💭 Themes
Art, identity, youth, tradition
🧠 Depth
Poetic, deeply layered
💬 Hook
A young man’s life unfolds through music, memory, and the search for meaning.
👥 Perfect For
Fans of Arundhati Roy, lyrical fiction
📖 Readers Who’ll Love This
Readers who enjoy atmospheric, music-rich stories exploring identity, art, and coming of age

Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained in the classical idiom but happily teaching more popular songs to well-to-do women, whose modern way of life he covets. Sixteen-year-old Nirmalya Sengupta is the rebellious scion of an affluent family who wants only to study Indian classical music. With a little push from her mother, Shyam agrees to accept Nirmalya as his student, entering into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences.


With quiet humor and unsentimental poignancy, The Immortals is a luminous portrait of the spiritual and emotional force of a revered Indian tradition, of two fundamentally different but intricately intertwined families, and of a society choosing between the old and the new.


Book details

Format
Paperback
Reading age
18+
Pages
432
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Published
26 September 2023
Language
English
ISBN
9780571361595

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