TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taseer,Aatish
TI  - The way things were: a novel 
SN  - 9780865478244 (hardcover)
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Faber & Faber
KW  - Families
KW  - India
KW  - Fiction
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "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"--; "An absorbing family saga set amid the commotion of the last forty years of Indian history"--
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