“A remarkable picture of contemporary India… Taneja’s sensuous writing brings women’s predicaments to life- a chilling warning.”- The Irish Times “Brilliant… finely crafted… Taneja has given us that rarest of beasts: a page-turner that is also unabashedly political.” - The Guardian “Urgent and exhilarating… We That Are Young cuts rage with poetry-and produces a memorable national epic.” - The TLS Its daring is outrageous.” - Literary Review “ We That Are Young is like nothing else. Urgent and irresistible… One of the most exquisite and original novels of the year.” - The Sunday Times It begins, rather, with the anguished sifting of its fragments in the aftermath of tragedy, and a grasping in the dark for voices worthy of trust, until its urgent call for equality and dignity comes true-first on the page, and then in the hearts and minds of all who read it.”- Maureen Freely, President of English PEN PRAISE FOR PRETI TANEJA Here again she offers living proof that great literature does not rise fully formed from the canon. "With We That Are Young, Preti Taneja established herself as one of the most courageous and lyrically gifted writers of her generation. “A masterpiece of nuance, vulnerability, truth, conviction, and near-sacred prose-a profound accomplishment.”- Jeff Deutsch, Seminary Co-op " is a tremendous feat of scholarship, of historical interlacing, of contemporary criticism, of literary examination, of ethical clarity and personal interrogation and, most indelibly, of grieving."- Gina Apostol, author of Insurrecto It lives on as a drumming in your head.”- Maria Tumarkin, author of Axiomatic Instead it breaks sentences and pages open, makes language rush into you (you are an estuary, the dam is gone). It tries to convince no one of nothing, to confess nothing to no one. “This searing abolitionist work sees, and refuses, other prisons too – of narrative-for-hire, racial shame, the trauma industrial complex, cause and effect. "Evolving a not-yet-existent form, Taneja weaves a mesmerising blend of recollection, theory, aphorism, poetry and, yes, fact."- Irish Times Its achievement lies in its generosity and intimacy.”- Los Angeles Review of Books “ Aftermath is a book of extraordinary heart and intellectual force that probes the power of trauma and interrogates the ideologically inflected meanings of terrorism. turns a critical lens toward the way language shapes violence, suggesting that 'power tells a story to sustain itself, it has no empathy for those it harms.' This poetic, urgent, and self-reflective work will delight fans of Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.”- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Blurring genre and form, Aftermath is a profound attempt to regain trust after violence and to recapture a politics of hope through a determined dream of abolition.Īftermath is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books. Contending with the pain of unspeakable loss set against public tragedy, she draws on history, memory, and powerful poetic predecessors to reckon with the systemic nature of atrocity. In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young, Taneja interrogates the language of terror, trauma and grief the fictions we believe and the voices we exclude. “’I am living at the centre of a wound still fresh.’ The I is not only mine. “It is the immediate aftermath,” Taneja writes. Merritt oversaw her program Khan was one of her students. Preti Taneja taught fiction writing in prison for three years. That day, he killed two people: Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt. Then he went to the restroom to retrieve the things he had hidden there: a fake bomb vest and two knives, which he taped to his wrists. On November 29, 2019, he sat with others at Fishmongers’ Hall, some of whom he knew. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education program he participated in. Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offenses at age 20, and sent to high-security prison.
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