THE WAY THINGS WERE by Aatish Taseer ( 9781447272717 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE WAY THINGS WERE

By:

Aatish Taseer

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1447272714

ISBN 13:

9781447272717

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Publisher:

PAN MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

28 January, 2016

Edition:

Main Market Ed.

Pages:

576

Description:

A breath-taking family story that will change the way you think of India.

Synopsis:

When Skanda's father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda's mother and from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around the world and deep within three generations of his family, whose fractures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to elude. Both an intimate portrait of a marriage and its aftershocks, and a panoramic vision of India's half-century - in which a rapacious new energy supplants an ineffectual elite - The Way Things Were is an epic novel about the pressures of history upon the present moment. It is also a meditation on the stories we tell and the stories we forget; their tenderness and violence in forging bonds and in breaking them apart. Set in modern Delhi and at flashpoints from the past four decades, fusing private and political, classical and contemporary to thrilling effect, this book confirms Aatish Taseer as one of the most arresting voices of his generation.

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Picador

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