Noon

Subtle and haunting Noon is the story of Rehan Tabassum a young man who has seen a childhood of uncertainty and whose vulnerability has rendered him a gaze so keen that it divines easily the shifts around him: his mother and her new husband the emergence of a dazzling new India the retreat of the old muted order of dust and shortages and the swell of a suppressed people. . In this uncompromising yet unexpectedly tender third book Aatish Taseer maps a difficult period in India and Pakistan a period of deep upheavals whose true direction is elusive. By presenting Rehan s journey through lands of sudden wealth and hidden violence in an atmosphere of political quicksand and moral danger Taseer brings us into closer contact with a world experiencing convulsive change. . Stark brave and absolutely compelling Noon confirms Aatish Taseer as a writer of emotional acuity and great intellectual gift.