Noon

Noon
Aatish Taseer
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Paperback
h197 x 130mm - 304pg
13 Sep 2012 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780330544443
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Set over two decades of convulsive change, "Noon" is the moving story of Rehan Tabassum, a young man whose heart is split across two cultures' troubled divide. Rehan's mother and her new husband are the embodiment of a dazzling, emergent India. Yet as the old, muted order of dust and shortages recedes, Rehan finds himself unmoored. With his father still a powerful shadow across the border in Pakistan, Rehan's journey begins: through lands of sudden wealth and hidden violence, in an atmosphere of political quicksand and moral danger, towards the centre of a dark, shifting world. "Noon" is a startling and incisive novel from a brilliant young writer, uniquely placed to bear witness to some of the most urgent questions of our times. Praise for "The Temple-Goers": "Naipaul's praise is rare enough to be notable; and Taseer lives up to it ...among the sharpest and best-written fictions about contemporary India." ("Independent"). "A coolly accomplished, pulsating account of modern-day Delhi." ("Guardian").
"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""A meditative, occasionally jolting novel by Aatish Taseer, the 31-year-old son of the former governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer . . . [A] blackmail plotline provides the novel with its brutal climax--and deepens the perception that Pakistan is both decadent "and" abnegating, irrevocably Westernized "and" violently closed off. The novel's smart coda . . . does nothing to reconcile or rationalize these contradictions. No sense trying to do so, seems to be the message of this intelligent, unsettling novel--a theme only a fiction writer could express in such a satisfactory way. --Taylor Antrim, "The Daily Beast""Naipaul's praise is rare enough to be notable; and Taseer lives up to it . . . Among the sharpest and best-written fictions about . . . contemporary India."""--"The Independent""[A] tangle of politics, murder, bribery and betrayal . . . Gripping."""--"The Observer" ""Noon's" careful yet nimble prose captures the visceral quality of this world in decline through a keenly critical and coldly detached lens . . . Moral corruption, greed, and violence are not glamorized or sensationalized; they are recursive facts of life, eternally returning as Nietzsche would've guessed, and modern day Pakistan is not immune . . . It pops with the verve of a great detective story, filled with suspense and scandal, but also empathy and even meta-fiction." --Stephen Spencer, "Electric Literature"
Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of Stranger to History: a Son's Journey through Islamic Lands (2009) and The Temple-Goers (2010), which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. He lives between London and Delhi.
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ISBN-13: 9780330544443
Published: 13 Sep 2012
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 304
Dewey: 823.92

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