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Noon

Noon

A Novel

by Aatish Taseer
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/10/2012

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Rehan Tabassum has grown up in a world of privilege in Delhi. His mother and her new husband embody the dazzling emergent India everyone is talking about. His real father, however, is a virtual stranger to him: a Pakistani Muslim who lives across the border and owns a vast telecommunications empire called Qasimic Call.

As Rehan contemplates his future, he finds himself becoming unmoored. Leaving the familiarity of home for Pakistan in an attempt to get closer to his father, he is drawn into events he barely understands. His half brother, Isffy, is being blackmailed; his powerful father's entourage is tearing itself apart; and the city of Port Bin Qasim, where he finds himself, is filled with rioting protestors. Moral danger lurks in every corner of this dark, shifting, and unfamiliar world.

Set against the background of a turbulent Pakistan and a rapidly changing India, Noon is a startling and powerfully charged novel from a brilliant young writer. Aatish Taseer bears witness to some of the most urgent questions of our times, questions about nationhood and violence, family and identity.
ISBN:
9780865478756
9780865478756
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-10-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
208x137x20mm
Weight:
0.36kg

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