04043cam a2200817 4500 2195268879 TxAuBib 20250506120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593798478 0593798473 B0CW1G9X38 Amazon df70564c-0d70-4af1-9cce-58dffa11f991 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10714440 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kamlani, Beena. The English Problem [e-iNC eBook] : A Novel. Crown, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. historical literary fiction. Indian independence. social justice book. the english problem. Historical Fiction. political history. literary fiction. Mahatma Gandhi. Social Justice. Coming of age. fiction books. colonization. 20th Century. independence. Assimilation. fiction book. rule of law. Colonialism. liberation. Historical. resistance. literature. Belonging. community. Sovereign. Movement. colonial. English. society. Justice. Fiction. britain. England. freedom. racism. Gandhi. lawyer. novels. racist. nation. indian. colony. India. HTML:<b>A young Indian man is tapped to help his country’s fight for freedom—but his heart engages him in a different war.<br /> “Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great convulsions of history.”—Joseph O’Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of <i>Godwin</i></b><br /> Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India. But he is no ordinary young man. Shiv has been personally chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to come to England, learn their laws, and then return home and help drive the British out of India. Before he leaves, his family insists he fulfill his arranged marriage, and he is hastily betrothed to a young woman he hardly knows.<br /> He arrives in London and soon discovers a world he is both repelled by and drawn to. Shiv knows his duty: get in, learn the letter of the law, get out. But as anyone who has ever lived in a British colony can tell you, “the English Problem” is multifaceted. The racist colonialism of “the empire on which the sun never sets” seeps into everything—not just landed territories, but territories of the mind: literature, language, religion, sexuality, self-identity. Soon the people Shiv sought to be liberated from will be the people he desperately wants to be a part of. In the end, Shiv must fight not only for his country’s liberation but also his own.<br /> Set against the backdrop of the Indian independence movement, with appearances by historical figures such as Virginia and Leonard Woolf and Mahatma Gandhi, <i>The English Problem</i> is so self-assured and ambitious, it is hard to believe it is a debut. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-05-06 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=df70564c-0d70-4af1-9cce-58dffa11f991&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=df70564c-0d70-4af1-9cce-58dffa11f991&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)