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The
2007 Award
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Siddhartha
Deb by
An Outline of the Republic |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| "They
gave me the vaguest of assignments before packing me off to the region,
introducing the subject late one night in the company urinals." So
begins the story of Amrit, a young, disillusioned journalist at a Calcutta
daily, a Sikh, who finds a disturbing photograph of a woman and decides
to investigate the story of her life and the violent incident captured by
the photograph. His research takes him halfway across India, to a region
of seven hill states bordered by China and Burma, where drugs, guns, and
timber sustain the crumbling economy and where militancy and insurgent movements
brew, threatening to spill over into a larger conflict. Amrit's journey
is as uncertain as the woman he wishes to find, interrupted by odd mishaps,
intrusive strangers with disturbing stories, false leads, and, above all,
disquieting rumours about a man running something called the Prosperity
Project -- a man who may have the answers to all Amrit's questions. A dramatic and tense narrative that sheds new light on India at moral, political, and social crossroads, An Outline of the Republic is a suspenseful, epic novel that traces the boundaries between illusion and reality, and the lives of people caught in the middle. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Siddhartha Deb was born in northeatern India in 1970. His first novel The Point of Return, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His reviews and journalism have appeared in the Boston Globe, Guardian, Nation, New Statesman, and the Times Literary Supplement. He came to New York on a literarture fellowship in 1998, and he now divides his time between India and New York. |
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