{"product_id":"9781529062984-time-outside-this-time","title":"A Time Outside This Time","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ‘non-fiction novel’ about lies and violence, ranging across Trump and Modi, the narrator’s childhood experience of communal violence in India, and his wife’s work as a psychologist.\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eImmigrant, Montana\u003c\/i\u003e comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than fiction, but a fiction of its own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Satya attends a prestigious artists’ retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won’t let up: the US president rages online; a dangerous virus envelops the globe; and the twenty-four-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. These Orwellian interruptions begin to crystallize into an idea for his new novel about the lies we tell ourselves and each other. Satya scours his life for moments where truth bends toward the imagined, and misinformation is mistaken as fact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs he sifts through newspaper clippings, the President’s tweets, childhood memories from India, and experiences as an immigrant, a husband, father, and teacher, Amitava Kumar’s \u003ci\u003eA Time Outside This Time\u003c\/i\u003e captures our feverish political moment with a precisely observant intelligence and an eye for the uncanny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant meditation on life in a post-truth era, this piercing novel captures the sentiment on all our minds, of how impossible it can feel to remember, or to imagine, a time outside of this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40627829538913,"sku":"9781529062984","price":8.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/53676a8b9be40d26fe9f33790271d57d.png?v=1686371116","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529062984-time-outside-this-time","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}