Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of Stranger to History: a Son's Journey through Islamic Lands, a Costa-shortlisted first novel, The Temple-Goers and the highly acclaimed Noon. He has also written for the Sunday Times, Prospect and Esquire. He lives between Delhi and New York.

Intensely engrossing ... What [Taseer] has done with great intelligence and elegance is to deliver a novel of ideas in the guise of a very human story. -- Michael Prodger Financial Times A formidable mix of the personal and the political ... Taseer's wide and analytical perspective has something in common with contemporaries Amit Chaudhuri and Neel Mukherjee, but his style - at once highly intellectual and deeply poetic - is unique ... The Way Things Were is a substantive contribution to new writing from the subcontinent. -- Amanda Hopkinson Independent The Ways Things Were shows [Taseer] to be both an accomplished novelist and commentator. In delving beneath the surface, he has vividly exposed the quarrels and quandaries of an India undergoing rapid historical and social change. -- Will Nicoll Spectator An ambitious state-of-the-nation novel about the role of history in a contested present ... Taseer ... sensitively undercuts the seductions of nostalgia. -- Phil Baker Sunday Times This is the sort of novel that gathers intelligence and power through repetition, incantation, and time. As the pages build ... these characters grow into two of the most memorable creations in Indian fiction. These scenes have an aching power that Taseer amplifies with his exquisite, booming prose ... as if Taseer has taken Naipaul and titrated him with Proust ... He has written the best Indian novel of the last decade. -- Karan Mahajan Los Angeles Review of Books

Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of Stranger to History: a Son's Journey through Islamic Lands, a Costa-shortlisted first novel, The Temple-Goers and the highly acclaimed Noon. He has also written for the Sunday Times, Prospect and Esquire. He lives between Delhi and New York.

Intensely engrossing ... What [Taseer] has done with great intelligence and elegance is to deliver a novel of ideas in the guise of a very human story. -- Michael Prodger Financial Times A formidable mix of the personal and the political ... Taseer's wide and analytical perspective has something in common with contemporaries Amit Chaudhuri and Neel Mukherjee, but his style - at once highly intellectual and deeply poetic - is unique ... The Way Things Were is a substantive contribution to new writing from the subcontinent. -- Amanda Hopkinson Independent The Ways Things Were shows [Taseer] to be both an accomplished novelist and commentator. In delving beneath the surface, he has vividly exposed the quarrels and quandaries of an India undergoing rapid historical and social change. -- Will Nicoll Spectator An ambitious state-of-the-nation novel about the role of history in a contested present ... Taseer ... sensitively undercuts the seductions of nostalgia. -- Phil Baker Sunday Times This is the sort of novel that gathers intelligence and power through repetition, incantation, and time. As the pages build ... these characters grow into two of the most memorable creations in Indian fiction. These scenes have an aching power that Taseer amplifies with his exquisite, booming prose ... as if Taseer has taken Naipaul and titrated him with Proust ... He has written the best Indian novel of the last decade. -- Karan Mahajan Los Angeles Review of Books

Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of Stranger to History: a Son's Journey through Islamic Lands, a Costa-shortlisted first novel, The Temple-Goers and the highly acclaimed Noon. He has also written for the Sunday Times, Prospect and Esquire. He lives between Delhi and New York.

Intensely engrossing ... What [Taseer] has done with great intelligence and elegance is to deliver a novel of ideas in the guise of a very human story. -- Michael Prodger Financial Times A formidable mix of the personal and the political ... Taseer's wide and analytical perspective has something in common with contemporaries Amit Chaudhuri and Neel Mukherjee, but his style - at once highly intellectual and deeply poetic - is unique ... The Way Things Were is a substantive contribution to new writing from the subcontinent. -- Amanda Hopkinson Independent The Ways Things Were shows [Taseer] to be both an accomplished novelist and commentator. In delving beneath the surface, he has vividly exposed the quarrels and quandaries of an India undergoing rapid historical and social change. -- Will Nicoll Spectator An ambitious state-of-the-nation novel about the role of history in a contested present ... Taseer ... sensitively undercuts the seductions of nostalgia. -- Phil Baker Sunday Times This is the sort of novel that gathers intelligence and power through repetition, incantation, and time. As the pages build ... these characters grow into two of the most memorable creations in Indian fiction. These scenes have an aching power that Taseer amplifies with his exquisite, booming prose ... as if Taseer has taken Naipaul and titrated him with Proust ... He has written the best Indian novel of the last decade. -- Karan Mahajan Los Angeles Review of Books