Aatish Taseer

Aatish Taseer est un petit-fils de la Partition indienne.Élevé à New Delhi par une mère sikhe, il n'a de son père musulman pakistanais qu'une photo dans un cadre en argent. À vingt-et-un ans, il décide de traverser la frontière indo-pakistanaise... Lire la suite

“[Manto’s] empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable, idiomatic translations have all the agile swiftness and understated poignancy that parallel suggests." ---Boyd Tonkin, Wall Street Journal Stories from "the... Lire la suite

When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was the Westernized teenager of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among New Delhi's intellectual and cultural elite. Nearly two decades later,... Lire la suite

**Longlisted for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction A blend of travelog and memoir spanning from Turkey to Mexico, exploring Aatish Taseer’s uniquely blended identity and asking: Why do certain cities become epicenters of great historical shifts and... Lire la suite

From the author of A Return to Self comes an intimate meditation on identity and migration set against the backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary that asks: in a nation built on motion and reinvention, can one ever truly feel at home? Soon after... Lire la suite