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The Indian Clerk

by David Leavitt

Bloomsbury USA | September 9, 2008 | Trade Paperback

"Richly imagined and] impressive" ("New York Times Book Review"), this critically acclaimed and emotionally charged novel about the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown-and unschooled-mathematical genius is historical fiction at its best: ambitious, profound, and absorbing.

Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, "The Indian Clerk" takes this extraordinary slice of history and transforms it into an emotional and spellbinding story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world. A literary masterpiece, it appeared on four bestseller lists, including the "Los Angeles Times," and received dazzling reviews from every major publication in the country. 

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This is a startlingly good book. It is a long time since I read something where both the characters' internal life and their external realities were so fully and convincingly evoked. It looks, among other things, at England during the first world war from an aspect that I had never seen explored before. It makes me think of Dickens, in the best way, compelling and intriguing characters, without any grotesqueries, complex, flawed and humanely, by which I think I mean sympathetically treated.

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