# The Way Things Were

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- Book: [The Way Things Were](https://www.bookquiver.com/aatish-taseer/the-way-things-were) ([The Way Things Were.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/aatish-taseer/the-way-things-were.md))
- Authors: [Aatish Taseer](https://www.bookquiver.com/aatish-taseer)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-14-4727-271-7
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2016-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Intensely engrossing . . . What [Taseer] has done with great intelligence and elegance is to deliver a novel of ideas in the guise of a very human story.