A Time Outside This Time av Amitava Kumar

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<p><b>From the acclaimed author of <i>Immigrant, Montana</i> comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than fiction, but a fiction of its own.<br><br>'A shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.' </b><b>– <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br>When Satya attends a prestigious artists’ retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won’t let up: the US president rages online; a dangerous virus envelops the globe; and the twenty-four-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. These Orwellian interruptions begin to crystallize into an idea for his new novel about the lies we tell ourselves and each other. Satya scours his life for moments where truth bends toward the imagined, and misinformation is mistaken as fact.<br><br>As he sifts through newspaper clippings, the President’s