Kirjahaku

In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young, Taneja interrogates the language of terror, trauma and grief; the fictions we believe and the voices we exclude.

New Yorker Best Book of 2022 "Stunning... poetic, urgent. [Taneja] turns a critical lens toward the way language shapes violence, suggesting that 'power tells a story to sustain itself, it has no empathy for those it harms.'"—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offenses at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education program he participated in. On November 29, 2019, he sat with others at Fishmongers’ Hall, some of whom he knew. Then he went to the restroom to retrieve the things he had hidden there: a fake bomb vest and two knives, which he taped to his wrists. That day, he killed two people: Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt. Preti Taneja taught fiction writing in prison for three years. Merritt oversaw her program; Khan was one of her students. “It is the immediate aftermath,” Taneja writes. “’I am living at the centre of a wound still fresh.’ The I is not only mine. It belongs to many.” In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young, Taneja interrogates the language of terror, trauma and grief; the fictions we believe and the voices we exclude. Contending with the pain of unspeakable loss set against public tragedy, she draws on history, memory, and powerful poetic predecessors to reckon with the systemic nature of atrocity. Blurring genre and form, Aftermath is a profound attempt to regain trust after violence and to recapture a politics of hope through a determined dream of abolition. Aftermath is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.

Penge. Magt. Korruption og begær. Vi De Unge er en moderne Kong Lear, der sprudler af energi og heftigt, men smukt afmålt raseri. Romanen byder på et alarmerende indblik i vor tids Indien, den opblomstrende religiøse nationalisme, sammenstødet mellem generationerne, livets intensitet og dødens evige nærvær. Det er vor tids tragedie – for tid og evighed. Vinder af The Eastern Eye Award for Literature 2019 & The Desmond Elliot Prize 2018“Frygtløst udhugger den sit eget territorium.”– Publishers Weekly “Afslørende. En af årets mest udsøgte og originale romaner.” – Sunday Times“Maler et billede af det moderne Indien, som vi ikke lige glemmer igen … en øjeblikkelig klassiker.” – The Times of India ”Intens, detaljeret og opslugende … en opfordring til at skabe social forandring.” – The Asian Review of Books

When a billionaire hotelier and political operator attempts to pit his three daughters against one another, a brutal struggle for primacy begins in this modern-day take on Shakespeare's King Lear. Set in contemporary India, where rich men are gods while farmers starve and water is fast running out, We That Are Young is a story about power, status, and the love of a megalomaniac father. A searing exploration of human fallibility, Preti Taneja's remarkable novel reveals the fragility of the human heart--and its inevitable breaking point.