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Quarterlife : a novel / Devika Rege.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.4.R44 Q87 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rege, Devika, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mumbai (India)--Fiction.
- Mumbai (India).
- Young adults--India--Fiction.
- Young adults.
- Political campaigns--India--Fiction.
- Political campaigns.
- Protest movements--India--Fiction.
- Protest movements.
- Homecoming--Fiction.
- Homecoming.
- Nationalism--Fiction.
- Nationalism.
- Genre:
- Political fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 403 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2024.
- Summary:
- "Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. A group of young people converge in Mumbai after an election brings the divisive Bharat Party to power: Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant lured home by the promise of "better days," is accompanied by Amanda, a restless New Englander eager to live her ideals through a social impact fellowship in a slum. Meanwhile, Naren's brother Rohit, the charismatic talent scout, sets out to explore his roots in the countryside and falls in with the fiery young men that drive the Hindu nationalist machine. As they each come to grips with the new India, their journeys coalesce into a riveting milieu characterized by brutal debates and desires as fraught as they are compulsive. The result is an ever-widening chorus that feeds into a festive night when all of Mumbai is on the streets--and the simmering unrest erupts. Quarterlife is as sweeping as it is intimate. With grace and precision, Devika Rege lays bare the moral and psychological roots of political belief in a time of reckoning for democracies worldwide. No one is spared, not even the writer. An urgent and prismatic debut, Quarterlife announces Rege as an evocative new voice in fiction and an author who is unafraid to test the limits of what the novel can achieve."--Amazon
- Notes:
- "First published in India by Fourth Estate in 2023."--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781324095491
- 1324095490
- OCLC:
- 1454353509
- Publisher Number:
- 90100208515
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