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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aGeetanjali Shree _9253904
245			_aOur City That Year
260			_aHaryana _bHamish Hamilton _c2024
300			_aviii,418 p. _bHB _c22x14 cm.
365			_aBLCR-045 _b₹559.00 _c₹ _d₹699.00 _e20% _f11-11-2024
520			_aFrom the Winner of The 2022 International Booker Prize A city teeters on the edge of chaos. A society lies fractured along fault lines of faith and ideology. A playground becomes a battleground. A looming silence grips the public. Against this backdrop, Shruti, a writer paralyzed by the weight of events, tries to find her words, while Sharad and Hanif, academics whose voices are drowned out by extremism, find themselves caught between clichés and government slogans. And there’s Daddu, Sharad’s father, a beacon of hope in the growing darkness. As they each grapple with thoughts of speaking the unspeakable, an unnamed narrator takes on the urgent task of bearing witness. First published in Hindi in 1998, Our City That Year is a novel that defies easy categorization—it’s a time capsule, a warning siren and a desperate plea. Geetanjali Shree’s shimmering prose, in Daisy Rockwell’s nuanced and consummate translation, takes us into a fever dream of fragmented thoughts and half-finished sentences, mirroring the disjointed reality of a city under siege. Readers will find themselves haunted long after the final page, grappling with questions that echo far beyond India’s borders.
650			_aEnglish Fiction _9185456
700			_aRockwell, Daisy Tr _9185458
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