The Light at the End of the World ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED
by Deb, Siddhartha
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- 1641294663
- ISBN 13
- 9781641294669
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FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally signed by the author directly to the full title page. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Including "NYC 2023" in one of his first stops along the tour for this incredible novel, his first in FIFTEEN YEARS. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.
Connecting India's tumultuous 19th and 20th centuries to its distant past and its potentially apocalyptic future, this sweeping tale of rebellion, courage, and brutality reinvents fiction for our time.
Delhi, the near future: Bibi, a low-ranking employee of a global consulting firm, is tasked with finding a man long thought to be dead but who now appears to be the source of a vast collection of documents. The trove purports to reveal the secrets of the Indian government, including detention centers, mutated creatures, engineered viruses, experimental weapons, and alien wrecks discovered in remote mountain areas.
Bhopal, 1984: an assassin tracks his prey through an Indian city that will shortly be the site of the worst industrial disaster in the history of the world.
Calcutta, 1947: a veterinary student's life and work connect him to an ancient Vedic aircraft that might stave off genocide.
And in 1859, a British soldier rides with his detachment to the Himalayas in search of the last surviving leader of an anti-colonial rebellion.
These timelines interweave to form a kaleidoscopic, epic novel in which each protagonist must come to terms with the buried truths of their times as well as with the parallel universe that connects them all, through automatons, spirits, spacecraft, and aliens. The Light at the End of the World, Siddhartha Deb's first novel in fifteen years, is a magisterial work of shifting forms, expanding the possibilities of fiction while bringing to life the India of our times.
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- Books On The Boulevard (US)
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- Title
- The Light at the End of the World ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED
- Author
- Deb, Siddhartha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 1641294663
- ISBN 13
- 9781641294669
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- signed; collectible; autographed, novel, india, delhi, rebellion, assassin, British
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