Cover Image

The grammarian a novel

Hosted by the wealthy Adivi family in a remote part of India while studying the Telugu language in the fall of 1911, French philologist Alexandre Lautens is condemned by the family patriarch for pursuing a relationship with the family's polio-stricken daughter.

Main Author: Potluri, Annapurna, 1979-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2013.
Subjects:
Philologists > Fiction.
Families > India > Fiction.
Self-realization > Fiction.
India > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Summary: Hosted by the wealthy Adivi family in a remote part of India while studying the Telugu language in the fall of 1911, French philologist Alexandre Lautens is condemned by the family patriarch for pursuing a relationship with the family's polio-stricken daughter.
Physical Description: 257 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781619021020 (hbk.)
1619021021 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Annapurna Potluri was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and moved to New York to attend New York University where she studied comparative literature and linguistics. She then earned an MPhil in theoretical linguistics from Cambridge University. She has lived in Italy and India and is currently working at the South Asia Institute at Columbia University.

Similar Items