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Preti Taneja
presents
We That Are Young:
A Novel
This event includes a book signing
DateSep
12
Wednesday
September 12, 2018 7:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome award-winning writer PRETI TANEJA for a discussion of her debut novel, We That Are Young.
About We That Are Young
Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Devraj family returns to his New Delhi childhood home at the age of twenty-three after fifteen years in the United States. His arrival coincides with the unexpected resignation of the founder and aging patriarch of the Company—its simple name belying its vast holdings across industry and entertainment, and the family's national renown. On the same day, Sita, Devraj's youngest daughter, disappears—refusing to marry the man her father wants for her. Now, Radha and Gargi, Sita's older sisters, are given the Company—and a brutal struggle for power begins.
Set against the backdrop of the anti-corruption protests that spread across India in 2011 and 2012, We That Are Young is brilliant in its fierce, incandescent storytelling and the energy of its prose. It tells a deeply insightful tale of India today, the pace of life in one of the world's fastest-growing economies, the clash of youth and age, and the ever-present specter of death. But more than that, it is a novel about the human heart—and its inevitable breaking point.
Praise
"We That Are Young is a powerful, engrossing chronicle of family and politics in contemporary India, perfectly constructed, magnificently written by a novelist with a silver ear and a golden voice." —Jim Crace, Chair of judges, the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018
"A truly magnificent novel: epic in scope and fizzing with originality. Taneja's is a powerful and arresting voice. We That Are Young tells a piercing tale of modern India—and of modern womanhood—that is brutally honest. It lingers in the mind long after the last page." —Jodie Ginsberg, Index on Censorship
"In a brilliant, sharp adaptation, Preti Taneja shows her profound understanding not just of Shakespeare and India, but of human nature itself. Heartbreaking. A poetic tour de force." —Vishal Bhardwaj
“India’s exorbitance almost overwhelmingly spills out of Taneja’s prodigious sprawling debut novel that unrolls a contemporary reworking of King Lear. The ruinous after-effects of a despotic business tycoon’s resignation shudder through her 550-page narrative packed with vivid scenes and powered with prose of terrific vitality.” —Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times
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