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The young man is Kailash, from India. His new American friends call him Kalashnikov, AK-47, AK. He takes it all in his stride: he wants to fit in--and more than that, to shine. In the narrative of his years at a university in New York, AK describes the joys and disappointments of his immigrant experience; the unfamiliar political and social textures of campus life; the indelible influence of a charismatic professor--also an immigrant, his personal history as dramatic as AKs is decidedly not; the very different natures of the women he loved, and of himself in and out of love with each of them. Telling his own story, AK is both meditative and the embodiment of the enthusiasm of youth in all its idealism and chaotic desires. His wry, vivid perception of the world hes making his own, and the brilliant melding of story and reportage, anecdote and annotation, picture and text, give us a singularly engaging, insightful, and moving novel--one that explores the varieties and vagaries of cultural misunderstanding, but is, as well, an impassioned investigation of love.
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In the first paragraph, why does Kailash as a new immigrant say he felt insufficiently authentic? What does he mean when he says he needed a suitable narrative to present?
In part I, why does Kailash think that immigrants feel at home in guilt? What makes them feel guilty?
Throughout the novel, Kailashs thoughts are written like a testimony in court. Why does Kailash feel like he must defend himself?
Why did Jennifer feel that she had to distance herself completely from Kailash at the end of part I? Do you think her actions were justified?
What is the importance of Ehsaans stories to Kailash and the other graduate students?
Do you think Ehsaans plan to kidnap Kissinger at the start of part III was hypothetical or serious? Does the authors note about Eqbal Ahmad change your opinion? How so?
How does Kailashs relationships with Jennifer, Nina, and Cai differ? What does he learn from each relationship?
How do the sex gurus Dr. Ruth, Dr. Watsa, and Rajneesh/Osho influence Kailashs understanding of sex?
Why do you think Peter told Kailash about Mayas past with her uncle? Should he have?
In part IV, was Nina justified in telling Kailash she was going to Maine when she really was with her ex-boyfriends dying mother? Would you be honest or lie? How would you feel if you were Kailash?
In part V, what is the significance to Kailash of the place Immigrant, Montana, and Wolf Number Three who had been shot there?
In parts I and V, Kailash compares monkeys and Indian immigrants. Compare and contrast their journeys to America.
At the end of the novel, Kailash says that he wanted very badly to go back to what I had ignored in my thesis. I wanted to write about love. Not just the story of one love, its beginning or its end, but the story of love and how it is haunted by loss. How is this theme reflected throughout the novel?
What is the significance of the various photographs throughout the book?
Why does the author frame Kailashs story with him looking back on his life? For assistance, read the epilogue.
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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright 2017, 2018 by Amitava Kumar
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in India as The Lovers by Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, in 2017.
www.aaknopf.com
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kumar, Amitava, [date] author.
Title: Immigrant, Montana : a novel / Amitava Kumar.
Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017054030 (print) | LCCN 2017050682 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525520757 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525520764 (ebook) |
Subjects: LCSH: East IndiansUnited StatesFiction. | College studentsFiction. | Self-realizationFiction. | Young menFiction. | ImmigrantsFiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Coming of Age. | FICTION / Cultural Heritage. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans.
Classification: LCC PR9499.4.K8618 (print) | LCC PR9499.4.K8618 I47 2018 (ebook) | DDC 824/.92dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017054030
Ebook ISBN9780525520764
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover design by Janet Hansen
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For Teju
The Revolution smells of sexual organs.
BORIS PILNYAK , Ivan and Maria
Oh, he loves her: just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly.
ZADIE SMITH , White Teeth
Researchers found that people are attracted to people who are attracted to them. This from a clipping pasted in a notebook kept while writing this book.
I was a new immigrant, eager to shine, and if self-abuse were to be omitted from the reckoning, pure of body and heart. The letters I sent my parents in India were full of enthusiasm for the marvels of my new life. To those who welcomed me to America, I wanted to say, without even being asked, that E.T. ought to have won the Oscar over Gandhi. I had found the latter insufficiently authentic but more crucially I felt insufficiently authentic myself. Not so much fake as insubstantial. I understood that I needed a suitable narrative to present to the people I was meeting. There was only contempt in my heart for my fellow Indian students who repeated stories about trying to educate ignorant Americans in barbershops who had asked how come they spoke such good English or if they belonged to tribes or grew up among tigers. The nostalgia I had come to treasure was a hypertrophied sense of the past as a place, a place with street signs and a figure atop a staircase that I recognized. This desire had nothing to do with the kinds of claims to civilizational superiority that make men demolish places of worship or want to bomb cities into oblivion. I knew this and yet I was uncertain about my story. I lacked calm self-knowledge. If a woman spoke to me, particularly if she was attractive, I grew excited and talked too much.
Im talking of what happened more than two decades ago; my first years here and my first loves. But the reality of my becoming who I am now, this evolution, as it were, goes back in time to the monkeys that surrounded me as an infant. This is my own, personal
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