by David Leavitt · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433975737
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«El contable hindú» is the historical novel by David Leavitt, published by Anagrama in paperback (620 pages, in Spanish).
In 1913, the mathematician G. H. Hardy receives a letter from Srinivasa Ramanujan, a clerk in Madras who claims to be close to solving a famous mathematical problem. Hardy decides to bring him to Cambridge; based on real events, the novel narrates that encounter and its echoes of colonialism, sexual identity, and the nature of genius.
The novel belongs to Anagrama's Panorama de narrativas collection, number 788. The translation from English is by Javier Lacruz; the original title, The Indian Clerk (2007).
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative interested in mathematics, colonial India, and biographies of real figures.
David Leavitt is an American novelist, short story writer, and biographer.
