The Light at the End of the World

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Mining the past 150 years of life in India, this sweeping tale of rebellion, courage, and brutality reinvents historical fiction for our time, in a magisterial work of shifting forms reminiscent of Cloud Atlas and Underworld.In Delhi in the near future, a former journalist searches for an old colleague and romantic partner she had thought long-dead, uncovering in the process a vast and fantastical collection of conspiratorial documents that puts the world's future into question. Bhopal, 1984: an assassin hunts a whistleblower through a central Indian city that will shortly be the site of worst industrial disaster in history. Calcutta, 1947: a veterinary student's life and work connect him to an ancient Vedic aircraft. And in 1859, a detachment of British soldiers ride towards the Himalayas in search of the last surviving leader of an anti-colonial rebellion. These uniquely Indian timelines interweave to form a kaleidoscopic, epic novel in which each section is a pursuit, centered around a character who is urgently racing to find or recover crucial but hidden truths in their respective time. Inset within each other, mirroring the future and the past, these narratives uncover the core of the Indian identity. The Light at the End of the World, Siddhartha Deb's first novel in a decade and a half, is an astonishing work that brilliantly reimagines the structure of one of the world's oldest civilizations.