Château Rouge: 'A true romance' Clare Carlisle
Jun 2026 · Faber & Faber
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'One of our most entertaining writers' Deborah Levy
I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious.
A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little resemblance to his idea of the city. With the passing of time, his disquiet translates into a way of seeking and experiencing a truer, more unlikely Paris.
Château Rouge takes up residence in that area before floating freely through the city. It takes its time, exploring tangents, diversions, side-streets, creeping into new spaces and remote angles, to open up fresh ground and appraise the city, the experience of travel, otherness - and the novel itself - anew.
'Paris provides the perfect setting for this beautiful, quietly experimental novel about a man floating through a city he struggles to find his place in' New Statesman
'Chaudhuri is a master of mundane, hallucinatory moments, calling to mind Rachel Cusk or W. G. Sebald' Hua Hsu, New Yorker
'Chaudhuri's minutely observed Paris comes to life because it is real, not romanticised. In so many ways, his perceptions are a lesson in how to see a place as it is, rather than as you want it
to be' Herald
I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious.
A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little resemblance to his idea of the city. With the passing of time, his disquiet translates into a way of seeking and experiencing a truer, more unlikely Paris.
Château Rouge takes up residence in that area before floating freely through the city. It takes its time, exploring tangents, diversions, side-streets, creeping into new spaces and remote angles, to open up fresh ground and appraise the city, the experience of travel, otherness - and the novel itself - anew.
'Paris provides the perfect setting for this beautiful, quietly experimental novel about a man floating through a city he struggles to find his place in' New Statesman
'Chaudhuri is a master of mundane, hallucinatory moments, calling to mind Rachel Cusk or W. G. Sebald' Hua Hsu, New Yorker
'Chaudhuri's minutely observed Paris comes to life because it is real, not romanticised. In so many ways, his perceptions are a lesson in how to see a place as it is, rather than as you want it
to be' Herald
'One of our most entertaining writers' Deborah Levy
I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious.
A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little rese...
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About the author
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels as well as acclaimed works of non-fiction, poetry, essays and short story collections. He has received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition and a composer and performer in a celebrated project that brings together different musical traditions.
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels as well as acclaimed works of non-fiction, poetry, essays and short story collections. He has received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Sahitya Akadem...
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