Faber & Faber
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
304 pages ISBN: 0865478589 EAN: 9780865478589 Kindle: B005FWPN2I Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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 Rehanβs life: his real father, a Pakistani Muslim who owns a telecommunications empire in Pakistan. Noon follows Rehanβs attempts to negotiate this loss as he journeys, both physically and emotionally, toward the heart of his fatherβs world. From the atavistic scenes of a childhood in Delhi to the cityβs 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 Rehanβs fatherβs companyβ 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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