<p>When aatish taseer receives a challenging letter from his estranged father in pakistan, he decides to set off on an expedition across the islamic world in search of his own islamic heritage, as well as to discover how other young people across the middle east felt about theirs in a post-911 world aatish is forced to confront himself and his relationship with the religious and secular worlds he moves in, as one of many crisis children living on the faultline of islam and modernity he explores issues of identity and religious self-discovery with a fascinating cross-section of people ranging from transvestites in full hijab in istanbul, and norwegians considering conversions in damascus, to hare krishnas in tehran as he travels, aatish tells the story of his own family over the past fifty years it is an absorbing and thought-provoking journey which culminates in an emotional reunion between aatish and his father in lahore, on a day that brings home the stark reality of attempts to reconcile old belief systems and liberal reform in a divided region where east meets west</p>

Stranger to History

Aatish Taseer

Travel

Picador

Noon

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Picador USA

Rehan Tabassum has grown up in a world of privilege in Delhi. His mother and her new husband embody the dazzling emergent India everyone is talking about. His real father, however, is a virtual stranger to him: a Pakistani Muslim who lives across the border and owns a vast telecommunications empire called Qasimic Call. As Rehan contemplates his future, he finds himself becoming unmoored. Leaving the familiarity of home for Pakistan in an attempt to get closer to his father, he is drawn into events he barely understands. His half brother, Isffy, is being blackmailed; his powerful father’s entourage is tearing itself apart; and the city of Port Bin Qasim, where he finds himself, is filled with rioting protestors. Moral danger lurks in every corner of this dark, shifting, and unfamiliar world. Set against the background of a turbulent Pakistan and a rapidly changing India, Noon is a startling and powerfully charged novel from a brilliant young writer. Aatish Taseer bears witness to some of the most urgent questions of our times, questions about nationhood and violence, family and identity.

The Way Things Were

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian (London), Kirkus Reviews, and PeopleThe 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. It falls to his son, Skanda, to return Toby’s body to his birthplace, “a tin-pot kingdom” not worth “one air-gun salute.” This journey takes him halfway around the world and returns him to his family, the drawing-room elite of Delhi, whose narcissism and infighting he has worked hard to escape. It also forces him to reckon with his parents’ marriage, a turbulent love affair that began in passion but ended in pain and futility.The novel takes its title from the Sanskrit word for history, itihasa, whose literal translation is “the way things indeed were.” The Way Things Were by Aatish Taseer is both an intimate portrait of a family and a panoramic vision of the last half century of life in Delhi, with Sanskrit woven in as central metaphor and chorus. Through one man’s struggle with his inheritance, it explores the cultural schizophrenia of modern India and the difficulty of building honestly on the past.

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd.

Canongate Books Ltd.

Messico

GUADALUPE NETTEL

Carmen Boullosa

Juan Villoro

Valeria Luiselli

Pino Cacucci

Dario Alemán

Jacobo García

Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil

Federico Mastrogiovanni

Elena Reina

Iperborea

Harpercollins

Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands

Leaders & Notable People

HARPER/COLLINS

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