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001			00016743
005			20220701010757.0
008			150512s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a9780865478244 (hardcover)
020			_z9780374712778 (ebook)
040			_aBD-DhIUB _cBD-DhIUB
082	0	0	_a823.92 _223
084			_aFIC019000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aTaseer, Aatish, _d1980-
245	1	4	_aThe way things were : _ba novel / _cAatish Taseer.
250			_aFirst American edition.
263			_a1507
264		1	_aNew York : _bFaber & Faber, _c2015.
300			_apages ; cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"An absorbing family saga set amid the commotion of the last forty years of Indian history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aFamilies _zIndia _vFiction.
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _y20th century _vFiction.
651		0	_aIndia _xSocial conditions _y20th century _vFiction.
651		0	_aIndia _xSocial life and customs _y20th century _vFiction.
655		0	_aDomestic fiction.
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd
999			_c16704 _d16704