About the Book: Our City That Year
A city teeters on the edge of chaos. A society lies fractured along fault lines
of faith and ideology. A playground becomes a battleground. A looming silence
grips the public.
Against this backdrop, Shruti, a writer paralyzed by the weight of events, tries
to find her words, while Sharad and Hanif, academics whose voices are drowned
out by extremism, find themselves caught between clichés and government slogans.
And there's Daddu, Sharad's father, a beacon of hope in the growing darkness. As
they each grapple with thoughts of speaking the unspeakable, an unnamed narrator
takes on the urgent task of bearing witness.
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