A Time Outside This Time by Kumar, Amitava
A Time Outside This Time by Kumar, Amitava

A Time Outside This Time

A blistering novel about a writer's creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and...
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Author: Amitava Kumar
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Language: English
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A Time Outside This Time by Kumar, Amitava

A Time Outside This Time

$54.62
A Time Outside This Time by Kumar, Amitava

A Time Outside This Time

$54.62
Author: Amitava Kumar
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A blistering novel about a writer's creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction

"An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment" --Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies

When Satya, a professor and author, attends a prestigious artists' retreat to write, he finds the pressures of the outside world won't let up: the president rages online; a dangerous virus envelops the globe; and the twenty-four-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. For most of the retreat fellows, such stories are unbearable distractions, but for Satya, who sees them play out in both America and his native India, these Orwellian interruptions begin to crystallize into an idea for his new novel, Enemies of the People, about the lies we tell ourselves and one another. Satya scours his life for instances in which truth bends toward the imagined and misinformation is mistaken as fact.

Mixing Satya's experiences--as a father, husband, and American immigrant--with newspaper clippings, the president's tweets, and observations on famous works of art, A Time Outside This Time captures a feverish political moment with intelligence, beauty, and an eye for the uncanny. It is a brilliant interrogation on life in a post-truth era and an attempt to imagine a time outside this one.


Author: Amitava Kumar
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.59w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780593319017


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2021 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 08/02/2021
Booklist 09/15/2021 pg. 20

About the Author
AMITAVA KUMAR is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, India, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty, and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of the novel Immigrant, Montana, as well as several other books of nonfiction and fiction. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he is Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College.
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