This Country Is No Longer Yours
A Novel
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A proposito di questo titolo
One of our dead writers liked to say, "Peru is a beggar sleeping on a bench made of gold." It's a cute phrase, but it's not really true. There's hardly any gold left, and none of us get much sleep.
Based on real events in 1970s–2000s Peru, This Country Is No Longer Yours tells the story of people living through the terrorist campaign of the Maoist Shining Path, while struggling to survive amid economic crisis and state collapse.
A student of the revolution's leader is dispatched to Cambodia to learn from the Khmer Rouge, sending him spiralling into a world of unfathomable political violence that both inspires him and will be his undoing. Then, as the terror spreads across Peru, a ruthless security agent of the newly-elected neoconservative government works to squash the growing insurgency now threatening the halls of power, while applying his surveillance training to romantic pursuits—with chilling results.
Just when it looks like the Shining Path has been defeated, a nationalist counter-revolution begins brewing in its wake, and a journalist committed to exposing their ambitions is too preoccupied to help a reader desperately pleading for her help outing a sexual predator who is seeking the presidency. And, in the country that remains, two former guerrillas meet again, one now a teacher stuck in the past, the other living on the margins and still fighting for her future.
Depicting a place and time ravaged by terror but alive with new ambitions and enduring love, Jain Chatlani explores the intersection of political breakdown and human endurance, as well as the unbearable choices demanded of those living in a society at war with itself. With incisive and haunting prose, combined with deeply personal insight, Jain Chatlani offers a stinging indictment of the ideologies that brutalize the very people they claim to represent, and relays an urgent warning about the dangers of zealotry, political messianism and acts of violence justified in the name of a cause.
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Praise for This Country Is No Longer Yours:
"A singular new voice chronicles the collective hope and despair of a nation caught in the bloody fervor of competing political ideologies. Deeply nightmarish at times, this riveting novel is like a dream you do not want to wake up from. Jain Chatlani writes with the calm cognizance of a historian and the unerring precision of a gem cutter. The result is brilliantly rich yet unencumbered prose, shining light on the duality that exists in each one of us. The man who sees a little girl get home safe has seen others to the grave. A significant debut." —Jamaluddin Aram, author of Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday
"A spell-binding and electrifying debut. Jain Chatlani writes about the complexities of Peru's political history with a clear intelligence and an unrelenting eye. This Country Is No Longer Yours is a visionary work." —Akil Kumarasamy, author of Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
"With powerful, haunting prose, Jain Chatlani delivers a powerful critique of nationalism, and those who abuse their power, while also warning of zealotry among idealists." —49th Shelf
"A singular new voice chronicles the collective hope and despair of a nation caught in the bloody fervor of competing political ideologies. Deeply nightmarish at times, this riveting novel is like a dream you do not want to wake up from. Jain Chatlani writes with the calm cognizance of a historian and the unerring precision of a gem cutter. The result is brilliantly rich yet unencumbered prose, shining light on the duality that exists in each one of us. The man who sees a little girl get home safe has seen others to the grave. A significant debut." —Jamaluddin Aram, author of Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday
"A spell-binding and electrifying debut. Jain Chatlani writes about the complexities of Peru's political history with a clear intelligence and an unrelenting eye. This Country Is No Longer Yours is a visionary work." —Akil Kumarasamy, author of Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
"With powerful, haunting prose, Jain Chatlani delivers a powerful critique of nationalism, and those who abuse their power, while also warning of zealotry among idealists." —49th Shelf
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