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"This is an extraordinary novel, one removed from any you're likely to read.... a brain-bang of a reading experience.... Tarun Tejpal is now well on the way to establishing himself as one of the most ambitious writers of his generation..." —Outlook India
"Tejpal's novel should be read to understand the times we live in." —Open Weekly, Mumbai
"Tejpal soars: this is fantasy at its chilling best....Tejpal excels when he creates characters and contexts ... a master storyteller." —India Today
Praise for The Story of My Assassins:
"Spine chilling ... written with flair and clear-eyed acidity." —The New Yorker
"One of India's most fearless writers." —KATHERINE BOO, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
"Tejpal is clever and inventive. In the profoundest way he writes for India." —V.S. NAIPAUL, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
"Tejpal's writing is unpredictable yet strikingly disciplined, and his exploration of matters physical and spiritual point out often painful truths." —Washington Post
"Tejpal writes with splendid élan: His novel is a stylish, erudite potboiler that reads like a mix of Alexandre Dumas and India's ancient national epic, the Mahabharata ... exhilarating." —SAM SACKS, The Wall Street Journal
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"This is an extraordinary novel, one removed from any you're likely to read.... a brain-bang of a reading experience.... Tarun Tejpal is now well on the way to establishing himself as one of the most ambitious writers of his generation..." —Outlook India
"Tejpal's novel should be read to understand the times we live in." —Open Weekly, Mumbai
"Tejpal soars: this is fantasy at its chilling best....Tejpal excels when he creates characters and contexts ... a master storyteller." —India Today
Praise for The Story of My Assassins:
"Spine chilling ... written with flair and clear-eyed acidity." —The New Yorker
"One of India's most fearless writers." —KATHERINE BOO, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
"Tejpal is clever and inventive. In the profoundest way he writes for India." —V.S. NAIPAUL, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
"Tejpal's writing is unpredictable yet strikingly disciplined, and his exploration of matters physical and spiritual point out often painful truths." —Washington Post
"Tejpal writes with splendid élan: His novel is a stylish, erudite potboiler that reads like a mix of Alexandre Dumas and India's ancient national epic, the Mahabharata ... exhilarating." —SAM SACKS, The Wall Street Journal
The harrowing dystopian thriller that was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize
Late at night, in a dingy apartment hidden in a side street of a nondescript foreign city, a man tries to write out his story before daybreak. He doesn't believe he'll live to see daylight, and he's driven to tell the world the story of his killers while there's still time.
Until he escaped, the man himself was one of those killers, known only as "X470." He was a Wafadar, one of a brotherhood of trained, ninja-like assassins indoctrinated with the task of protecting the commune, an anonymous collective hidden in a valley of the Himalayas—where all the inhabitants wear masks to heighten the perception of equality.
Among the Wafadar, every vestige of individualism has been effaced. Even to sing is to provoke violent punishment. They serve only perfection and equality—and Aum, their mystic progenitor. X470 has killed, too, attesting to his fealty. But now, he is a Dagadaar—a traitor—simply because he wanted to take his mask off.
The Valley of Masks is an Orwellian parable of "the tyranny of the idea ... when the idea becomes more important than the man."
Late at night, in a dingy apartment hidden in a side street of a nondescript foreign city, a man tries to write out his story before daybreak. He doesn't believe he'll live to see daylight, and he's driven to tell the world the story of his killers while there's still time.
Until he escaped, the man himself was one of those killers, known only as "X470." He was a Wafadar, one of a brotherhood of trained, ninja-like assassins indoctrinated with the task of protecting the commune, an anonymous collective hidden in a valley of the Himalayas—where all the inhabitants wear masks to heighten the perception of equality.
Among the Wafadar, every vestige of individualism has been effaced. Even to sing is to provoke violent punishment. They serve only perfection and equality—and Aum, their mystic progenitor. X470 has killed, too, attesting to his fealty. But now, he is a Dagadaar—a traitor—simply because he wanted to take his mask off.
The Valley of Masks is an Orwellian parable of "the tyranny of the idea ... when the idea becomes more important than the man."
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- ÉditeurHarperCollins India
- Date d'édition2013
- ISBN 10 9350296098
- ISBN 13 9789350296097
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