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Quarterlife : a novel
Abstract:
Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. A group of young people converge in Mumbai after an election brings the divisive Bharat Party to power: Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant lured home by the promise of "better days," is accompanied by Amanda, a restless New Englander eager to live her ideals through a social impact fellowship in a slum. Meanwhile, Naren's brother Rohit, the charismatic talent scout, sets out to explore his roots in the countryside and falls in with the fiery young men that drive the Hindu nationalist machine. As they each come to grips with the new India, their journeys coalesce into a riveting milieu characterized by brutal debates and desires as fraught as they are compulsive. The result is an ever-widening chorus that feeds into a festive night when all of Mumbai is on the streets--and the simmering unrest erupts. Quarterlife is as sweeping as it is intimate. With grace and precision, Devika Rege lays bare the moral and psychological roots of political belief in a time of reckoning for democracies worldwide. No one is spared, not even the writer. An urgent and prismatic debut, Quarterlife announces Rege as an evocative new voice in fiction and an author who is unafraid to test the limits of what the novel can achieve.-- Publisher description.
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Author:
Rege, Devika, author.
Author, for Grouping:
Rege, Devika,
Availability:
Sierra Vista Public Library~1
Database Key:
u673165
Document ID:
SD_ILS:673165
Edition:
First American edition.
Author:
Rege, Devika, author.
First Subject value, for Searching:
Young adults -- India -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Title:
Quarterlife : a novel
Format:
Book
General Note:
"First published in India by Fourth Estate in 2023."--Title page verso.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9781324095491
Language:
English
Number Available:
1
OCLC:
1418887938 1464922457
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
403 pages ; 24 cm
Preferred Shelf Number:
F REGE
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Date as Range:
2024
Relevance Sort Field:
2024
Reverse Author:
Devika, author. Rege
Subject:
Young adults -- India -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Political campaigns -- India -- Fiction.
Protest movements -- India -- Fiction.
Jeunes adultes -- Inde -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Retour au foyer -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Nationalisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Jeunes adultes -- Inde -- 21e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.
Political fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Romans.
Subsequent Subject values, for Searching:
Political campaigns -- India -- Fiction.

Protest movements -- India -- Fiction.

Jeunes adultes -- Inde -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Retour au foyer -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Nationalisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Jeunes adultes -- Inde -- 21e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.

Political fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Fiction.

Romans.
Summary:
Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. A group of young people converge in Mumbai after an election brings the divisive Bharat Party to power: Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant lured home by the promise of "better days," is accompanied by Amanda, a restless New Englander eager to live her ideals through a social impact fellowship in a slum. Meanwhile, Naren's brother Rohit, the charismatic talent scout, sets out to explore his roots in the countryside and falls in with the fiery young men that drive the Hindu nationalist machine. As they each come to grips with the new India, their journeys coalesce into a riveting milieu characterized by brutal debates and desires as fraught as they are compulsive. The result is an ever-widening chorus that feeds into a festive night when all of Mumbai is on the streets--and the simmering unrest erupts. Quarterlife is as sweeping as it is intimate. With grace and precision, Devika Rege lays bare the moral and psychological roots of political belief in a time of reckoning for democracies worldwide. No one is spared, not even the writer. An urgent and prismatic debut, Quarterlife announces Rege as an evocative new voice in fiction and an author who is unafraid to test the limits of what the novel can achieve.--
Title:
Quarterlife : a novel
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Quarterlife :