![]() ![]() Satya reads Orwell’s 1984, and he’s working on a novel, “Enemies of the People,” a prototype for A Time Outside This Time, perhaps. The narrator, Satya, is at a writer’s retreat in Italy at the dawn of the pandemic. The world Kumar unfolds is the very one we live in, documenting news from America and the narrator’s homeland, India, pasting tweets by former President Trump, and interrogating journalism. The novel itself walks the tight line between reality and fiction, but I’m not sure I’d call it autofiction. Kumar is interested in how we locate truth in a world of fake news, biased reporting, sketchy world leaders, and within ourselves. A Time Outside This Time is an experimental meditation on truth. ![]() It would be interesting to hear what Kumar has to say about the situation. ![]() Or perhaps intelligence was only led astray, perhaps we misunderstood, or didn’t hear. was lied to not just by the Taliban, but also some Afghans. The shock of the events leads one to believe that the U.S. I finished reading Amitava Kumar’s new novel, A Time Outside This Time, on the day Kabul fell in Afghanistan. Just ask the President of the United States. ![]()
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