Our City That Year
$51.54
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2025
Summary
Our City Ablaze: A Novel of Division and Witness
“I highlighted just about every line in this book, and I can’t think of a better novel to make sense of our current era.” –Molly Odintz, *CrimeReads*
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 religio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780063385702 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0063385708 |
| Author: | Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 153mm x 26mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“I highlighted just about every line in this book, and I can’t think of a better novel to make sense of our current era.” – Molly Odintz, CrimeReads
About The Author
Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree is the author of five novels, including Tomb of Sand for which she was awarded the 2022 International Booker Prize, and five story collections. Her work has been translated into several European and South Asian languages, and has received numerous accolades. She lives in New Delhi, India.
Daisy Rockwell is a painter, writer, and translator living in Vermont who was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2022 for her translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand. She has also translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, and in 2019 she was awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for her translation of Krishna Sobti’s A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There.
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