"Stunning... [Taneja] turns a critical lens toward the way language shapes violence, suggesting that 'power tells a story to sustain itself, it has no empathy for those it harms.' This poetic, urgent, and self-reflective work will delight fans of Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Aftermath is a book of extraordinary heart and intellectual force that probes the power of trauma and interrogates the ideologically inflected meanings of terrorism. Its achievement lies in its generosity and intimacy.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
"Evolving a not-yet-existent form, Taneja weaves a mesmerising blend of recollection, theory, aphorism, poetry and, yes, fact."—Irish Times
"This searing abolitionist work sees, and refuses, other prisons too—of narrative-for-hire, racial shame, the trauma industrial complex, cause and effect. It tries to convince no one of nothing, to confess nothing to no one. Instead it breaks sentences and pages open, makes language rush into you (you are an estuary, the dam is gone). Its shape is unmappable. It lives on as a drumming in your head."—Maria Tumarkin, author of Axiomatic
"A tremendous feat of scholarship, of historical interlacing, of contemporary criticism, of literary examination, of ethical clarity and personal interrogation and, most indelibly, of grieving."—Gina Apostol, author of Insurrecto
Praise for We That Are Young
“Revelatory. Urgent and irresistible… One of the most exquisite and original novels of the year.”—The Sunday Times
“We That Are Young is like nothing else. Its daring is outrageous.”—Literary Review
“Urgent and exhilarating… We That Are Young cuts rage with poetry—and produces a memorable national epic.”—The TLS
“Brilliant… finely crafted… Taneja has given us that rarest of beasts: a page-turner that is also unabashedly political.”—The Guardian
“A remarkable picture of contemporary India… Taneja’s sensuous writing brings women’s predicaments to life—[and issues] a chilling warning.”—The Irish Times
“Misogyny, religious and caste prejudice, plus the madness of money all make for a magnificent, dark and satirical drama.”—Marie Claire
