# The Temple-goers

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- Book: [The Temple-goers](https://www.bookquiver.com/aatish-taseer/the-temple-goers) ([The Temple-goers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/aatish-taseer/the-temple-goers.md))
- Authors: [Aatish Taseer](https://www.bookquiver.com/aatish-taseer)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4193-303-0
- Published: 2010-03-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A young man returns home to Delhi after several years abroad and resumes his place among the city's cosmopolitan elite - a world of fashion designers, media moguls and the idle rich. But everything around him has changed - new roads, new restaurants, new money, new crime - everything, that is, except for the people, who are the same, only maybe slightly worse. Then he meets Aakash, a charismatic and unpredictable young man on the make, who introduces him to the squalid underside of this sprawling city. Together they get drunk and work out, visit temples and a prostitute, and our narrator finds himself disturbingly attracted to Aakash's world. But when Aakash is arrested for murder, the two of them are suddenly swept up in a politically sensitive investigation that exposes the true corruption at the heart of this new and ruthless society. In a voice that is both cruel and tender, The Temple-goers brings to life the dazzling story of a city quietly burning with rage.