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CITY OF RAPTURE

n his first book, , Akash Kapur used a varied cast of characters, including a cattle broker and call centre worker, to animate the upheavals transforming the country he had returned to from the US. In his second, , he swaps out his panoramic lens for a more intimate focus: the family album. In this pacey, propulsive book, he turns his attention

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