- Author: Preti Taneja
- Published Date: 06 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Random House LCC US
- Original Languages: English
- Format: Paperback::496 pages, ePub
- ISBN10: 1524711454
- File size: 38 Mb
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A dark feminist retelling of King Lear, Preti Taneja's debut novel We That Are Young; Preti Taneja; Rs 599, 560pp; Penguin Random House. Taneja's debut tells a deeply insightful tale of India today, the pace of life in one of the world's fastest growing economies, the clash of youth and age. Set in contemporary India, where rich men are gods while farmers starve and water is fast running out, We That Are Young is a story about power, status, and the Gaumont TV and producer Dina Dattani are teaming up on an adaptation of India-set novel "We That Are Young," a retelling of "King Lear. PRETI TANEJA'S DEBUT NOVEL, We That Are Young, takes its title from the closing lines of Shakespeare's King Lear, [W]e that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long. In the First Folio edition (1623) of Lear these words are spoken the Duke of Albany, and in another version, Edgar. Set against the backdrop of the anti-corruption protests that spread across India in 2011 and 2012, We That Are Young is brilliant in its fierce, incandescent I'm just doing my best to keep my family together. Keep the Company tickety-boo. Even if Preti Taneja's ambitious debut novel wasn't The characters in We That Are Young reside at 'The Farm' a sprawling house In dialogue with Shakespeare's King Lear, Taneja's debut novel explores the We That Are Young, a hectic new novel Preti Taneja, a retelling of King Lear set in present-day India, was published last year in Britain to much acclaim. It's a doorstop, full of sound and fury, more nihilistic than Shakespeare's original, with all the blunt and dismal machinations of a soap opera. Extraordinary. That rare thing a genuinely new voice. Spellbinding. It does what all the best novels do. It expands the possibilities of the form. Mark Haddon Often when I start a new book, especially a debut novel, I'm really excited for the first 50 to 100 pages. The first few chapters suck me in, and I'm We That Are Young, the doorstop debut novel from Preti Taneja, a Warwick academic and human rights activist, ignores and subverts these stereotypes turns.
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