About the Book: 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 Rehans journey through lands