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City on Fire
- A Boyhood in Aligarh
Engelsk Hardback
City on Fire
- A Boyhood in Aligarh
Engelsk Hardback

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Zeyad Masroor Khan was four years old when he realized that an innocent act of clicking a switch near a window overlooking the street could trigger a riot. As the distant thud of a crowd grew closer and calls for murder rent the air, he got his first taste of growing up in Upar Kot, a Muslim ghetto in Aligarh. Khan’s world was far-removed from the Aligarh of popular imagination-of poets, tehzeeb and the intellectual corridors of the Aligarh Muslim University. His was a city where serpentine lanes simmered with violence, homes fervently prayed to dispel the omnipresent fear of a family member turning up dead, and the soft breeze that blew over crowded terraces carried rumours of a bloodthirsty mob on the prowl. In his coming-of-age memoir, Khan writes, with searing honesty and raw power, about the undercurrents of religious violence and the ensuing ‘othering’ that followed him everywhere he went.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
312
ISBN-13:
9789356998247
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9356998248
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
6 dec 2023
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
150mm
Forlag:
HarperCollins Publishers India
Oplagsdato:
6 dec 2023
Forfatter(e):
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