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Our City That Year: A Novel by Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the International Booker Prize-winning author-translator duo of Tomb of Sand, a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured society, loosely based on the gathering violence that eventuated in the demolition of the Babri Mosque by religious extremists in 1992. "That year, in our city, Hindus abandoned their pacifism. We've run out of other cheeks to turn, they proclaimed. We're helpless! they screamed. They climbed atop mosques and waved the flag of Devi from the prongs of tridents proclaiming, What was done to us will be visited on them! Wrong shall be answered with wrong!" In an unnamed city in India, violence is erupting between Hindus and Muslims, each side viewing the other with suspicion, rage, and blame. As their identities sharpen, friends and colleagues turn against each other. Hospital beds fill up and classrooms empty out. Curfews are imposed. Residents flee en masse. Three intellectuals find themselves paralyzed by anxiety...

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Author

Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9780063385702

Category

work of fiction

Updated

2026-03-24