Devika Rege was born and raised in Pune. Quarterlife is her first novel.
"What begins as a novel of ideas becomes the secret history of a nation ... Both moving and inspiring.' - JEET THAYIL
India, 2014. A Hindu nationalist party has come to power after an intensely divisive election. Naren, a thirty-one-year-old Wall Street consultant, is lured by their economic mandate to return to Bombay. With him is Amanda, eager to live her ideals through a teaching fellowship in a Muslim-majority slum. Meanwhile Rohit, a filmmaker inspired to seek his cultural roots in the heartland, ends up befriending the young men who feed off the right-wing machinery. As they come to grips with the new India, they become aware of an increasingly complex and simmering milieu. The result is a story that widens from three points of view to encompass those of an entire city, climaxing on a festive night when revellers turn riotous and tragedy strikes.
As much a social and philosophical inquiry as a political bildungsroman, Quarterlife is also a brilliant and ambitious work that tests the limits of what the novel can achieve. "
