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Our City That Year

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From the International Booker Prize-winning author-translator duo of Tomb of Sand, a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured society, loosely based on the gathering violence that eventuated in the demolition of the Babri Mosque by religious extremists in 1992."That year, in our city, Hindus abandoned their pacifism. We've run out of other cheeks to turn, they proclaimed. We're helpless! they screamed. They climbed atop mosques and waved the flag of Devi from the prongs of tridents proclaiming, What was done to us will be visited on them! Wrong shall be answered with wrong!"In an unnamed city in India, violence is erupting between Hindus and Muslims, each side viewing the other with suspicion, rage, and blame. As their identities sharpen, friends and colleagues turn against each other. Hospital beds fill up and classrooms empty out. Curfews are imposed. Residents flee en masse.Three intellectuals find themselves paralyzed by anxiety...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18449653
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Year:
2025
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9780063385702
ISBN:
9780063385719, 9780063385702

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