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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 9781324095491
- Book Title
- Quarterlife : a Novel
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, General, Political
- Item Weight
- 22.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1324095490
ISBN-13
9781324095491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16064998751
Product Key Features
Book Title
Quarterlife : a Novel
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Family Life, General, Political
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
22.8 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2025-398045
Reviews
While presenting a gallery of smaller roles in order to explore the ideological ferment of that moment. Rege belittles none of these voices as she sets them at play, and, finally, at war. The effect is an urgent, vital orchestration, capturing both the complexities of the subcontinent and the capacities of the novel., Quarterlife is a sparkling debut from Pune-born, US-educated writer Devika Rege.... Transnational literature isn't easy, but Rege makes it feel fairly effortless., A remarkable debut novel that feels as if it had been lived with and thought through for years, its every choice deeply considered and yet also brave, risky--it's got an assurance rare for first books., What's especially exciting is the freshness in Rege's turn of phrase--the rhythm in her sentences feels new, and marks the arrival of a voice we have not heard before in Indian literature in English., What is so compelling about this novel is how its concerns reach way beyond India's borders. While questions of identity have been a hot topic in Western societies for some time, Quarterlife foreshadows the impact of a lurch to the radical right which is only recently being felt in Europe and the US., The outcome of [Rege's] quest isn't flawless, but it captures a fundamental truth about the 21st century, not just in India but all over the globalized world: that life is riddled with conflict and asymmetry among people close to and far from one another., Rege gamely tackles India's caste system and the elites' blasé response to the rising threat to minorities under the Bharat Party... she pulls off some beautiful and kaleidoscopic set pieces, such as her depiction of Ganeshotsav. Readers will want to keep an eye out for what Rege does next., Quarterlife, is an essential work of fiction, enriched by its author's complex feelings about her country.... One of the most ambitious literary works to come out in years., An exploration of the relationship of the self with the nation in the fashion of the big novels of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh. . . [Rege's] biggest achievement is her fidelity to her object of exploration and her refusal to make aesthetic concessions in its representation. She resists the fictionalist's urge to simplify. . ., A bonafide stunner. Rege's plot and characters are outstanding. The novel starts in a smaller scope than one might expect but then blossoms into a grand view of India, politics, and friendship. Her grasp on how to keep a reader hooked is evident throughout the novel., Quarterlife explores the impossible, exhausting, and universal question of how to be good, compounded by the problem of Hinduism, with its millennia-old caste oppression and the BJP's most recent antidemocratic homogenization efforts. The slippery, multifaceted modes of Hinduism encountered by Rege's characters reflect the novel's complexity. Inspired by James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Rege's research informs a story that avoids prophesying, instead embracing ambiguity in an epilogue that tempers the novel's overwhelming feeling of despair., A landmark novel. ... Rege has a vast descriptive repertoire, is willing to take astonishing risks with structure, and is immaculate in her numerous interiority dives. Her hand is so sure, it's often impossible to believe that Quarterlife is a debut., An ambitious, unusual, formally risky novel that attempts nothing less than a full-scale portrait of India circa 2014. About a quarter of the way through, it opens out into something odder, incorporating many more characters, a more panoptic view of India on the cusp of becoming a world power. Rege is a talented young writer, finely attuned to the psychology of her characters...A promising first outing by a skilled writer., What a blazingly original voice, what a fiercely intelligent engagement with contemporary world politics and culture. Devika Rege is at the forefront of a new generation of authors who are challenging received notions of what transnational literature can do and remaking global literary culture in the process., A scintillating novel of ideas and personal transformations... What's remarkable is that the speakers never sound like hollow ideological vessels. They hold forth from deep-seated places of fear and yearning--fatefully united, like the country itself, by their intractable disagreements... Throughout, the scope of the book's ideas and textured rendering of its characters contribute to an oceanic feeling of simultaneous scale and intimacy. It is akin to the sensation we experience when immersed in the great Russian fiction of the 19th century... [Quarterlife is] by a distance the best debut of the year., Dazzling, sophisticated, and wholly achieved in its ambition. .?.?. Devika Rege is a transformative novelist., A fearless achievement.... An urgent, vital orchestration.... Rege's seriousness of purpose runs like an electrical wire through the book. Diversity is here the means of inquiry, inextricable from the questions the novel asks of diversity.... [Quarterlife's] classic amplitude of form allows for the slow and steady examination not only of illiberal voices but also, more interestingly, of a variety of quasi-liberal [ones].... Rege belittles none of these voices as she sets them at play and, finally, at war.
Synopsis
New Yorker * The Best Books of 2024 "[Quarterlife is] by a distance the best debut of the year." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal "A fearless achievement.... An urgent, vital orchestration.... Rege's seriousness of purpose runs like an electrical wire through the book." --James Wood, New Yorker "A superb read . . . both moving and inspiring." --Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis, "[Quarterlife is] by a distance the best debut of the year." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal "A superb read . . . both moving and inspiring." --Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis, Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. A group of young people converge in Mumbai after an election brings the divisive Bharat Party to power: Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant lured home by the promise of "better days," is accompanied by Amanda, a restless New Englander eager to live her ideals through a social impact fellowship in a slum. Meanwhile, Naren's brother Rohit, the charismatic talent scout, sets out to explore his roots in the countryside and falls in with the fiery young men that drive the Hindu nationalist machine. As they each come to grips with the new India, their journeys coalesce into a riveting milieu characterized by brutal debates and desires as fraught as they are compulsive. The result is an ever-widening chorus that feeds into a festive night when all of Mumbai is on the streets--and the simmering unrest erupts. Quarterlife is as sweeping as it is intimate. With grace and precision, Devika Rege lays bare the moral and psychological roots of political belief in a time of reckoning for democracies worldwide. No one is spared, not even the writer. An urgent and prismatic debut, Quarterlife announces Rege as an evocative new voice in fiction and an author who is unafraid to test the limits of what the novel can achieve.
LC Classification Number
PR9499.4.R43Q37 2024
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- l***t (453)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem arrived as stated in used but good condition. It was a great price for used. A new copy would have cost a lot more. It was shipped out fast and arrived in secure envelope. Seller did a great job with this entire transaction. I’m very happy with seller and would order from them again. Thank you seller, great job. A+. JL
- s***t (181)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThere was a mixup during packaging where a paperback copy was picked and shipped for a hard cover copy that was ordered. I asked the seller about it and they honestly replied that the mistake was on their end. A full refund for the item was sent immediately and I will not hesitate to order more from ZBK. Very responsive and they stand behind their items and make good on any issues.