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Aftermath

by Preti Taneja
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788198128591
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster UK
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  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: INR 499.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 220 grams
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Winner of the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize

Shortlisted for 2023 British Book Awards Book of the Year in the Discover category

Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. 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 programme he participated in. On 29 November 2019, he sat with others at Fishmongers’ Hall, some of whom he knew. Then he went to the bathroom to retrieve the things he had hidden there: a fake bomb vest and two knives, which he taped to his wrists. That day, he killed two people: Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt.

Preti Taneja taught fiction writing in prison for three years. Merritt oversaw her program; Khan was one of her students. ‘It is the immediate aftermath,’ Taneja writes. ‘“I am living at the centre of a wound still fresh.” The I is not only mine. It belongs to many.’

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. 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. 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.

Preti Taneja's novel We That Are Young won the UK's Desmond Elliott Prize for the finest literary debut of the year, and was listed for international awards including the Folio Prize, the Prix Jan Michalski, and the Shakti Bhatt Prize. It has been translated into several languages. Aftermath won the Gordon Burn Prize, and was shortlisted for a British Book Award. It was a New Yorker Book of the Year. In 2022 Preti Taneja was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures. She is a Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, UK and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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