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Author:

Taseer, Aatish, 1980-

Title:

The way things were : [a novel] / Aatish Taseer.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Faber & Faber,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

565 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Families--India--Fiction.
India--History--20th century--Fiction.
India--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
India--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Notes:

Subtitle from cover.

Summary:

"An absorbing family saga set amid the commotion of the last forty years of Indian history, 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. Moving back and forth across three sections, between today's Delhi and the 1970s, '80s, and '90s in turn, the novel tells the story of a family held at the mercy of the times"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0865478244
9780865478244

LCCN:

2014049064

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SXPC124 -- Greene Public Library (Greene)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)