{"product_id":"the-valley-of-masks-1","title":"The Valley of Masks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tarun J. Tejpal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 18-02-2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e ‘A superb allegory of how totalitarianism emerges from the pursuit of ideals taken to their logical extremes. The creative accomplishment is extraordinary. This novel is a singular triumph, a universal fable.’—Shashi Tharoor\u003cbr\u003e\n‘This is my story. And the story of my people.’\u003cbr\u003e\nOn what will possibly be the last night of his life, a man sits alone in a dingy apartment hidden in a side street of an unnamed city, trying to record his story before daybreak. By dawn, he knows, he will be dead.\u003cbr\u003e\nOnce, he was known only by a number: X470. He was a Wafadar, part of a secret order raised to protect a hidden commune of the ‘pure’ in the high mountains—an experiment in absolute equality where faces are masked, names erased and desire itself is trained out of the body. The Wafadars are its enforcers: disciplined, lethal, incorruptible.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe commune looks up to Aum, its long-dead founder and prophet. It worships perfection. It worships unity. To question—to even doubt—is to betray.\u003cbr\u003e\nNow a Dagadar—a traitor—X470 is hunted by the brotherhood he once served. As the hours run out, he recounts the making of a man without an identity, and the events leading up to the moment he chose to claim it.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Valley of Masks is a chilling, hypnotic parable about what happens when perfection matters more than people, about the tyranny that replaces utopia when an idea becomes more sacred than those who live and die for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789363366459\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.9 x 6.0 x 1.4 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Speaking Tiger Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51231542149424,"sku":"PrakashBooks_9789363366459","price":600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/81spYTq9DyL_86ae2ed1-bc39-4606-a647-37f1ece440d9.jpg?v=1774846783","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-valley-of-masks-1","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}