Writing out his story before a dawn he believes will mark the end of his life, a former ninja-like assassin reflects on the anonymous collective where his fellow trainees and he were required to wear masks and forfeit every vestige of individuality.

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

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TARUN J. TEJPAL is a journalist, publisher, novelist, and founder of India's leading news magazine, Tehelka. He has been named one of India's most influential people by The Guardian, Businessweek and Asiaweek. A celebrated literary novelist as well as a journalist, his fiction has been awarded France's Prix Mille Pages and was a finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize. His debut novel, The Alchemy of Desire, was hailed by V.S. Naipaul as "a new and brilliantly original novel
from India." Tejpal lives in New Delhi.

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A harrowing dystopian thriller that was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, from the author of "The Story Of My Assassins". Tejpal was named one of India's 50 most powerful people in "BusinessWeek" due to his unflinching journalism, and is the founder of new organisation Tehelka.