**Winner of the 2024 MATHRUBHUMI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD and the 2024 RAMNATH GOENKA SAHITYA
SAMAAN AWAWRD FOR BEST DEBUT FICTION Shortlisted for the 2023 ATTA GALATTA PRIZE FOR FICTION
and the 2023 KALINGA LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION ** 'An ambitious reckoning' Guardian '
Quarterlife is a revelation . . . and deserves the widest attention' Observer 'A fearless
achievement' The New Yorker The Bharat Party has come to power after an intensely divisive
election. Naren a jaded Wall Street consultant is lured home to Mumbai by their promise of '
better days '. With him is Amanda eager to escape her New England town by volunteering in a
Muslim-majority slum. Inspired by them Naren's charismatic brother Rohit sets out to explore
his ancestral heritage in the countryside where he falls in with the ¿ery young men who drive
the Hindu nationalist machine. As they each come to grips with the new India their journeys
coalesce into a riveting milieu characterized by brutal debates and desires as fraught as they
are compulsive. The result is an ever-widening chorus that feeds into a festive night when all
of Mumbai is on the streets - and the simmering unrest erupts. Quarterlife is as sweeping as
it is intimate. With profound empathy and insight Devika Rege lays bare the roots of political
belief in a time of reckoning for democracies worldwide - this is a brilliantly innovative work
that tests the limits of what the novel can achieve. 'Powerful demanding rewarding' Daily
Mail ' Rege is at the forefront of a new generation of authors' Vauhini Vara author of The
Immortal King Rao 'Utterly masterful and moving' Gauri Gill author of Acts of Appearance
