Extraordinary. That rare thing-a genuinely new voice. Spellbinding. It does what all the best novels do. It expands the possibilities of the form. -Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time

Preti Taneja has packed her debut novel with so much insight and feeling for contemporary India that her sentences seem to spill out as if from an overstuffed bag. It's a marvel that she was able to pack in so much (plot, atmosphere, social observation, you name it) while sustaining such propulsive energy over the course of nearly 500 pages, and yet she manages to the last. The overall effect is dizzying, dazzling, and ultimately convincing and immersive. -Eugenia Williamson, Boston Globe

We That Are Young is an embodiment [of King Lear]. The register is dramatic and the language poetic. . . . It's marvelous to watch Taneja, a woman, play with the text [of Lear] in which the women are atrocious. She's no easier on these characters than Shakespeare was, redeeming none, so that the last laugh is hers. And it's as gratifying to watch Preti Taneja take on William Shakespeare as it is to watch India trounce Britain at cricket. The Raj is long over; ever kingdom falls. -Rumaan Alam, The New York Times Book Review

We That Are Young is a masterpiece. I can't remember when I last read a book so uncompromising, fierce and emotionally vast. -Omar El Akkad, author of American War

Taneja is a writer of considerable energy and invention . . . [We That Are Young has] such deliberate and frightening pacing, such a mix of triumph and psychosis, it's up there with anything Mary Gaitskill or Susanna Moore have ever written . . . An entirely original take on Lear . . . A new, chilling take on one of the oldest stories in the world. -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

Taneja's impressive debut uses King Lear as a template but fearlessly varves a territory of its own. While remaining close to Shakespeare's plot points, she offers a portrait of modern India both panoramic and complex. . . . Taneja's intricate, literary prose is heavy in both detail and reflection. This is a work of epic scope and depth that's bracingly of the current moment. -Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

Every now and then, a writer grabs you in the first paragraph and doesn't let go. Such is the case with Taneja, whose stunning debut brings with familial jealousy, sexual tension, political turmoil, and shocking violence. . . . Taneja writes with passion and verve. . . . Highly recommended. -Sally Bissell, Library Journal

Take Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, King Lear, 'The Jewel in the Crown,' 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' and V.S. Naipaul's India: A Wounded Civilization; pass them along to DJ Danger Mouse for a bit of a mashup; and you'd have a sense of the shape and scope of Preti' Taneja's debut novel. -Thane Tierney, Bookpage

Shakespeare's supreme tragedy, King Lear, is transposed to contemporary India and recast as a family drama of financial power-brokering within a transforming, culturally complex nation. . . . Issues of gender and generations spearhead the conflict in this mammoth drama of money, succession, and control, British-born Taneja's impressive first work of fiction. Pulsing with vitality . . . Taneja's dreamy synthesis of language, place, food, clashing views and values, seeping Westernization, and post-colonial flux reaches its climax. A long, challenging, but inspired modernization of a classic-engaging, relevant, and very dark. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Taneja's impressive debut uses King Lear as a template but fearlessly varves a territory of its own. While remaining close to Shakespeare's plot points, she offers a portrait of modern India both panoramic and complex. . . . Taneja's intricate, literary prose is heavy in both detail and reflection. This is a work of epic scope and depth that's bracingly of the current moment. -Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

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