The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

by Aatish Taseer

Book Overview

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge

When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374279608
• ISBN13: 9780374279608
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"