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Taseer, Aatish, 1980-
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Families -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
India -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Taseer, Aatish, 1980-
Families -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
India -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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The way things were /
Aatish
Taseer
.
by
Taseer
,
Aatish
,
1980-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Call #:
FICTION TAS
Subjects
Families -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
India -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781250097460 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
565 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
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Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
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