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The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
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"I've always had difficulty imagining my father as a policeman. He seemed most himself in the informal setting of safari life, clothes disheveled, sometimes not shaving for days. So why did he join the Indian Police, with its rigid hierarchies and complex protocols?"

Setting Sun is the story of the dying days of an empire, combined with gripping family history, in an extraordinary literary voyage across India.

When a letter from an Indian historian arrives out of the blue, informing leading academic Moore Gilbert that his beloved, deceased father, a member of the Indian Police before Independence, partook in the abuse of civilians, Moore Gilbert's world is shaken as his cherished childhood memories are challenged. He sets out in search of the truth—discovering much about the end of empire, the state of India today, and whether his father, as one of the many characters on his quest claims, really was a terrorist.

Crisscrossing western India, and following leads from bustling Mumbai to remote rural scenes, Moore-Gilbert finally pieces together the truth, ultimately discovering that the same story links the past with the present, colonial India with its modern incarnation, terrorism through the ages and father with son.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherVerso Books
Release dateMay 13, 2014
ISBN9781781682692
The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
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Bart Moore-Gilbert

Bart Moore-Gilbert is Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices and Politics, Kipling and "Orientaliism", and editor of Literature and Imperialism, Cultural Revolution? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s, The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure?, Writing India: British Representations of India 1857-1990 and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader.

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    The author's writing brings the sights, smells and sounds of the different places alive, from England to Africa and India.

    This book is more than a memoir. I enjoyed reading the childhood memories given as flashbacks throughout the book. They are so vividly written.
    In addition, there's the author's investigation into his father's past and solving that mystery.
    A very well-written book, at the same time introspective, raw, vivid, sweet and honest

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