A dazzling debut novel--set in early 1970\'s New York and rural India--the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination of one man\'s search for forgiveness and acceptance.
A Play for the End of the World is his first novel..
He was born in Kolkata, India, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family.
Chakrabarti was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space and received his MFA from Brooklyn College.
Henry Prize Stories , The Best American Short Stories , and awarded a Pushcart Prize.
About author(s): JAI CHAKRABARTI\'s short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and has been anthologized in The O.
An unforgettable love story, a provocative exploration of the role of art in times of political upheaval, and a deeply moving reminder of the power of the past to shape the present, A Play for the End of the World is a remarkable debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.
Torn between the survivor\'s guilt he has carried for decades and his feelings for Lucy (who, unbeknownst to him, is pregnant with his child), Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves.
Travelling there alone to collect his friend\'s ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a Play in protest against the government--the same Play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis.
Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk\'s oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. an impressive debut." --Meg Wolitzer, best-selling author of The Female Persuasion New York City, 1972. "Looks deeply at the echoes and overlaps among art, resistance, love, and history ...
A dazzling debut novel--set in early 1970\'s New York and rural India--the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination of one man\'s search for forgiveness and acceptance
