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by Guest Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:09 pm
This is the amazon link to Tarun Tejpal's forthcoming novel:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Valley-Masks-A-Novel/dp/1612192629/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1385856416&sr=8-3&keywords=tarun+tejpal
this is a description of the book:
Late at night, in a dingy apartment hidden in a side street of a nondescript foreign city, a man tries to write out his story before daybreak. He doesn't believe he'll live to see daylight, and he's driven to tell the world the story of his killers while there's still time.
Until he escaped, the man himself was one of those killers, known only as "X470." He was a Wafadar, one of a brotherhood of trained, ninja-like assassins indoctrinated with the task of protecting the commune, an anonymous collective hidden in a valley of the Himalayas—where all the inhabitants wear masks to heighten the perception of equality.
Among the Wafadar, every vestige of individualism has been effaced. Even to sing is to provoke violent punishment. They serve only perfection and equality—and Aum, their mystic progenitor. X470 has killed, too, attesting to his fealty. But now, he is a Dagadaar—a traitor—simply because he wanted to take his mask off.
The Valley of Masks is an Orwellian parable of "the tyranny of the idea ... when the idea becomes more important than the man."
my question to you is: do you think Tejpal wrote this book himself or do you think it is ghost written?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Valley-Masks-A-Novel/dp/1612192629/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1385856416&sr=8-3&keywords=tarun+tejpal
this is a description of the book:
Late at night, in a dingy apartment hidden in a side street of a nondescript foreign city, a man tries to write out his story before daybreak. He doesn't believe he'll live to see daylight, and he's driven to tell the world the story of his killers while there's still time.
Until he escaped, the man himself was one of those killers, known only as "X470." He was a Wafadar, one of a brotherhood of trained, ninja-like assassins indoctrinated with the task of protecting the commune, an anonymous collective hidden in a valley of the Himalayas—where all the inhabitants wear masks to heighten the perception of equality.
Among the Wafadar, every vestige of individualism has been effaced. Even to sing is to provoke violent punishment. They serve only perfection and equality—and Aum, their mystic progenitor. X470 has killed, too, attesting to his fealty. But now, he is a Dagadaar—a traitor—simply because he wanted to take his mask off.
The Valley of Masks is an Orwellian parable of "the tyranny of the idea ... when the idea becomes more important than the man."
my question to you is: do you think Tejpal wrote this book himself or do you think it is ghost written?
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by Guest Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:05 am
why do you think it is not written by him? he is well read and capable of writing decent prose.
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by Guest Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:44 am
Because he seems to be having his fingers in too many pies now-- various businesses-- for him to have time to write a novel. I am not questioning his earlier work. My suggestion is that he may have conceived the plot of his latest novel and then gotten some other person or people to flesh out the story after which he may have revised the text or even re-written parts of it. I am just suggesting this as a possibility.Brigadier HK (Retd) wrote:why do you think it is not written by him? he is well read and capable of writing decent prose.
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by Guest Sun Dec 01, 2013 5:39 am
yes. you make a valid point. writing a novel requires discipline and solitiude. with his celebrity-circle lifestyle, one wonders where he gets the time to write not one but 4/5 novels in that many years. but people have been known to juggle jobs and a literary career, so who really knows?Rashmun wrote:Because he seems to be having his fingers in too many pies now-- various businesses-- for him to have time to write a novel. I am not questioning his earlier work. My suggestion is that he may have conceived the plot of his latest novel and then gotten some other person or people to flesh out the story after which he may have revised the text or even re-written parts of it. I am just suggesting this as a possibility.Brigadier HK (Retd) wrote:why do you think it is not written by him? he is well read and capable of writing decent prose.
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