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Gautam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gautam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Gautam Bhatia
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The Sentence
My new SF novel, The Sentence, is now out wherever books are sold, and online to order:
https://www.amazon.in/Sentence-Gautam...
The Sentence is at the boundary of science fiction, criminal law, and alternative political structures. Here is the blurb:
https://www.amazon.in/Sentence-Gautam...
The Sentence is at the boundary of science fiction, criminal law, and alternative political structures. Here is the blurb:
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What if you’ve been frozen in stasis for a hundred years for a crime you may or may not have committed?
An impoverished young man, Jagat, is found guilt
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| This book reminded me why I stopped reading Guy Gavriel Kay a few years ago, after his novels played such a formative part in shaping my teenage world. I picked it up because the thought of a fantasy novel based on the life and deeds of François Vill ...more | |
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| "One can certainly concede that desire is radically conditioned without claiming that it is radically determined, and that there are structures that make possible desire without claiming that those structures are impervious to a reiterative and trans ...more | |
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| In Hisham Matar's The Return, we are told of a character who was sad, but whose sadness had nothing noble in it. We all suffer, and we all strive mightily to convince ourselves that our suffering has the quality of nobility to it, a grandeur that giv ...more | |
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| In Hisham Matar's The Return, we are told of a character who was sad, but whose sadness had nothing noble in it. We all suffer, and we all strive mightily to convince ourselves that our suffering has the quality of nobility to it, a grandeur that giv ...more | |
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| In 1980s Chile, a young boy grows up in a Santiago suburb, the son of a carefully apolitical pair of parents. One day, his neighbour Raul’s niece – Claudia – recruits him to perform a mysterious task: to watch her uncle, note who visits him, track hi ...more | |
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| A mosaic-style work that tells the story of the Spanish Civil War through the life and death of one its most famous and enigmatic figures, the anarchist commander Buenaventura Durruti, as seen through the eyes of his confidantes, friends, lover, and ...more | |
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| I read Asef Bayat’s Revolution Without Revolutionaries alongside Anarchy’s Brief Summer, and reading the two books together almost gave me whiplash in moments. Revolution without Revolutionaries is a diagnosis of the Arab Spring revolutions of the 20 ...more | |
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| A short history of 20th century Nigeria, from the colonial era to the present-day, covering eras that I knew something about previously (such as the Biafran War, which I’d read about in Achebe’s work), but also those which I had only a vague sense of ...more | |
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| I bought this out of my interest in Gramsci, and because I like novels that shift between eras. I was disappointed. Insofar as the book is set in 1930s Italy, and tells us of Gramsci’s last years, it’s a gripping read; but when, every chapter, it shi ...more | |
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― The Wall
― The Wall
“Fraternity was the bridge that would make liberty and equality become ‘the natural course of things’.”
― The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
― The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
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