The Wall: Being the First Book of the Chronicles of Sumer

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TitleThe Wall: Being the First Book of the Chronicles of Sumer
Year for Search2020
AuthorsBhatia, Gautam(b. 1988)
Pagination385 pp.
Date Published2020
PublisherHarperCollins India
Place Published Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
ISBN Number9789353578350
KeywordsEnglish author, Indian author, Male author
Annotation

While the novel is explicitly fantasy, it is set in a walled city that has been cut off from the rest of the world for centuries that has a strictly hierarchical society and power structure reinforced by religion. One focus is on the desire to break the structure and find out what is on the other side of the wall. Presumably the first volume of a series.

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Author Note

The author (b. 1988) was born and raised in India where he received his law degree, then earned two postgraduate degrees in law at the University of Oxford and another at Yale University before returning to Oxford, where he is pursuing his doctorate. He has published two books on the Indian constitution with Oxford University Press and is coordinating editor of the science fiction journal Strange Horizons.
Full Text

2020 Bhatia, Gautam (b. 1988). The Wall: Being the First Book of the Chronicles of Sumer. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins India. 385 pp. PSt

While the novel is explicitly fantasy, it is set in a walled city that has been cut off from the rest of the world for centuries that has a strictly hierarchical society and power structure reinforced by religion. One focus is on the desire to break the structure and find out what is on the other side of the wall. Presumably the first volume of a series. The author was born and raised in India where he received his law degree, then earned two postgraduate degrees in law at the University of Oxford and another at Yale University before returning to Oxford, where he is pursuing his doctorate. He has published two books on the Indian constitution with Oxford University Press and is coordinating editor of the science fiction journal Strange Horizons.