When Skanda's father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda's mother and
from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body
to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around
the world and deep within three generations of his family, whose
fractures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to
elude. Both an intimate portrait of a marriage and its aftershocks,
and a panoramic vision of India's half-century - in which a
rapacious new energy supplants an ineffectual elite - The Way
Things Were is an epic novel about the pressures of history upon
the present moment. It is also a meditation on the stories we tell
and the stories we forget; their tenderness and violence in forging
bonds and in breaking them apart. Set in modern Delhi and at
flashpoints from the past four decades, fusing private and
political, classical and contemporary to thrilling effect, this
book confirms Aatish Taseer as one of the most arresting voices of
his generation.
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