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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780865478244
- Categories [2022], BX, BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, F LIT, Fic20, Fiction, H/C, Highlight
- Author(s) Taseer, Aatish
- Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux
- Pages 576
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 4.3cm x 16.3cm x 21.0cm
- Weight 0.76 kg
product description
The Way Things Were opens with the death of Toby, the Maharaja of Kalasuryaketu, a Sanskritist who has not set foot in India for two decades. It falls to his son, Skanda, to return Toby's body to his birthplace, "a tin-pot kingdom" not worth "one air-gun salute." This journey takes him halfway around the world and returns him to his family, the drawing-room elite of Delhi, whose narcissism and infighting he has worked hard to escape. It also forces him to reckon with his parents' marriage, a turbulent love affair that began in passion but ended in pain and futility.
