The Indian Clerk: A Novel
 

The Indian Clerk: A Novel

by David Leavitt



The brilliant new novel from one of our most respected writers—his most ambitious and accessible to date.

On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy—eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age—receives in the mail a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling... (read more)

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Reica G
  • Rated 4 stars

I really enjoyed this. It's a fictional account of the relationship between G H Hardy, a Cambridge don, and S. Ramanujan, a mathematical genius who Hardy brought to England prior to World War One. Leavitt conjures up an entire world: of the extraordinarily elite Cambridge (the Apostles in particular); of England during the First World War; of repressed homosexuality and of mathematics. The novel is long enough for real character development and Leavitt even manages to make the maths vaguely...

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Kelly M
  • Rated 2 stars

I employed the 100 page rule. Too much math in this book. I love David Leavitt and this is very well written but - David, there's too much math and I can't find teh story. So, after 100 pages, I am setting it down.

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