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The Way Things Were

A Novel

Author: Aatish Taseer

The Way Things Were

The Way Things Were

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An absorbing family saga set amid the commotion of the last forty years of Indian history

The Way Things Were
opens with the death of Toby, the Maharaja of Kalasuryaketu,...

Page Count
576
On Sale
07/07/2015

Book Details

An absorbing family saga set amid the commotion of the last forty years of Indian history

The Way Things Were
opens with the death of Toby, the Maharaja of Kalasuryaketu, a Sanskritist who has not set foot in India for two decades. Moving back and forth across three sections, between today's Delhi and the 1970s, '80s, and '90s in turn, the novel tells the story of a family held at the mercy of the times.

A masterful interrogation of the relationships between past and present and among individual lives, events, and culture, Aatish Taseer's The Way Things Were takes its title from the Sanskrit word for history, itihasa, whose literal translation is "the way things indeed were." Told in prose that is at once intimate and panoramic, and threaded through with Sanskrit as central metaphor and chorus, this is a hugely ambitious and important book, alive to all the commotion of the last forty years but never losing its brilliant grasp on the current moment.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374712778

In The News

“Combining a heady cocktail of theft, blackmail and dysfunctional family relations with a touch of the Kafkaesque, this is a powerfully written and deeply thoughtful work.” —Anna Scott, The Guardian on Noon

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The Way Things Were

The Way Things Were

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