A Time Outside This Time

When a writer called Satya joins a prominent artists' retreat, he discovers that the outside world's demands aren't going away: the US president rages online, a frightening virus envelops the planet, and the twenty-four-hour news cycle adds fuel to every fire. These Orwellian interruptions begin to form the basis of his new work, Enemies of the People, which is about the falsehoods they tell themselves and each other. Satya searches his life for instances in which truth bends toward the imagined and disinformation is misconstrued as actuality.

Amitava Kumar's A Time Outside This Time captures the feverish political moments with a precisely observant intelligence and an eye for the uncanny as Satya sifts through newspaper clippings, the President's tweets, childhood memories from India, and moments as an immigrant, a husband, father, and teacher. This shattering novel, a remarkable reflection on living in a post-truth period, conveys the sensation on all the minds, of how difficult it might feel to recall or fathom, a world other than this one.

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Author: Amitava Kumar
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