The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
Language: English
Published by Random House Canada, 2014
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- Signed
- Hardcover
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- Title
- The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
- Author
- Viswanathan, Padma
- Publisher
- Random House Canada
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307356345
- ISBN 13
- 9780307356345
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing.
From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors. A book of post-9/11 Canada, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao demonstrates that violent politics are all-too-often homegrown in North America but ignored at our peril.
In 2004, almost 20 years after the fatal bombing of an Air India flight from Vancouver, 2 suspects--finally--are on trial for the crime. Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in Canada, comes back to do a "study of comparative grief," interviewing people who lost loved one in the attack. What he neglects to mention is that he, too, had family members who died on the plane. Then, to his delight and fear, he becomes embroiled in the lives of one family caught in the undertow of the tragedy, and privy to their secrets. This surprising emotional connection sparks him to confront his own losses. The Ever After of Ashwin Rao imagines the lasting emotional and political consequences of a real-life act of terror, confronting what we might learn to live with and what we can live without.
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"A captivating novel that in relating the story of one Indian woman and her family tells the story of a changing society. Precisely and deftly written, constantly interesting, morally serious yet sympathetic--I challenge any reader to start reading this book and give up on it. It joins the company of the great novels on India." Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi
"In this debut novel, Padma Viswanathan offers a sweeping narrative of a Brahmin family that must redefine itself when the nation undergoes political and social upheavals.... The family...serves as a fascinating microcosm of a nation that is freeing itself of vestiges of colonialism and class divisions." Quill & Quire
"The world into which Padma Viswanathan plunges her reader...is a revelation: an ordered, profoundly exotic universe." The Gazette
"This soaring new novel, inspired by the author's family history, will draw comparisons to The God of Small Things, but Viswanathan has a voice and a vision all her own." Chatelaine
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