Book description
A young man returns home to Delhi after several years abroad and
resumes his place among the city's cosmopolitan elite - a world of
fashion designers, media moguls and the idle rich. But everything
around him has changed - new roads, new restaurants, new money, new
crime - everything, that is, except for the people, who are the same,
only maybe slightly worse.
Then he meets Aakash, a charismatic and unpredictable young man on
the make, who introduces him to the squalid underside of this
sprawling city. Together they get drunk and work out, visit temples
and a prostitute, and our narrator finds himself disturbingly
attracted to Aakash's world. But when Aakash is arrested for murder,
the two of them are suddenly swept up in a politically sensitive
investigation that exposes the true corruption at the heart of this
new and ruthless society.
In a voice that is both cruel and tender, The Temple-goers
brings to life the dazzling story of a city quietly burning with rage.
Aatish Taseer was born in Delhi in 1980. He has worked as reporter
for
Time Magazine
and has written for the
Sunday Times
,
Prospect
and
India
Today.
He has also written a travel memoir,
Stranger to History
: a Son's Journey through Islamic Lands
(2009) and a highly acclaimed translation
Manto: Selected Stories
(2008). He lives in Delhi and London.
