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Noon, September 2011
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Faber & Faber
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
304 pages ISBN: 0865478589 EAN: 9780865478589 Kindle: B005FWPN2I Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life
Rehan Tabassum has grown up in a world of privilege in
Delhi. His mother is a successful lawyer and her new husband
is a wealthy industrialist whose way of doing business is at
the heart of the New India everyone is talking about. But
there is a marked absence in Rehan’s life: his real father,
a Pakistani Muslim who owns a telecommunications empire in
Pakistan. Noon follows Rehan’s attempts to negotiate this
loss as he journeys, both physically and emotionally, toward
the heart of his father’s world. From the atavistic scenes
of a childhood in Delhi to the city’s boom and bust; from an
earthquake in Pakistan to threats of violence in the
sinister city of Port Bin Qasim; from the lives of servants
at home in Delhi to blackmail and menace within Rehan’s
father’s company– this extraordinary family saga
interrogates the nature of power in two changing countries.
Aatish Taseer tells the story of a man who comes of age as
his country does, in an atmosphere of political quicksand
and moral danger.
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