{"product_id":"9781945492549-aftermath","title":"Aftermath","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA bold and searching lament in the wake of the 2019 London Bridge killings, reckoning with the language of terror, trauma, and grief, and the systemic nature of atrocity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Stunning. poetic, urgent. [Taneja] turns a critical lens toward the way language shapes violence, suggesting that 'power tells a story to sustain itself, it has no empathy for those it harms.'\"—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offenses 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 program he participated in. On November 29, 2019, he sat with others at Fishmongers’ Hall, some of whom he knew. Then he went to the restroom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreti 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 \u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e is not only mine. It belongs to many.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this searching lament by the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eWe That Are Young\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eAftermath\u003c\/em\u003e is a profound attempt to regain trust after violence and to recapture a politics of hope through a determined dream of abolition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAftermath\u003c\/em\u003e is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55420547465590,"sku":"9781945492549","price":14.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27189439.jpg?v=1742884171","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781945492549-aftermath","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}