Praise for The Valley of Masks : "This is an extraordinary novel, one removed from any you're likely to read. a brain-bang of a reading experience. Tarun Tejpal is now well on the way to establishing himself as one of the most ambitious writers of his generation." --Outlook India "Tejpal's novel should be read to understand the times we live in." --Open Weekly, Mumbai "Tejpal soars: this is fantasy at its chilling best.Tejpal excels when he creates characters and contexts . a master storyteller." --India Today Praise for The Story of My Assassins : "Spine chilling .
written with flair and clear-eyed acidity." --The New Yorker "One of India's most fearless writers." --KATHERINE BOO, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity "Tejpal is clever and inventive. In the profoundest way he writes for India." --V.S. NAIPAUL, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature "Tejpal's writing is unpredictable yet strikingly disciplined, and his exploration of matters physical and spiritual point out often painful truths." --Washington Post "Tejpal writes with splendid élan: His novel is a stylish, erudite potboiler that reads like a mix of Alexandre Dumas and India's ancient national epic, the Mahabharata .
exhilarating." --SAM SACKS, The Wall Street Journal.