Mukul Kesavan
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Looking Through Glass: A Novel
Mukul Kesavan
Looking Through Glass is a powerful and immensely entertaining novel set in the troubled 1940s—the era of India’s partition and independence. Its narrator is our contemporary, an ambitious young photographer properly unconcerned with history. But history makes him her own—in a literal way—when he finds himself suddenly transported into the deep end of 1942. His involuntary odyssey through a crumbling Raj takes him from Muslim neighborhoods and coffee shops to Hindu wrestling academies to colonial enclaves of viceregal splendor. He meets change-mongering…
