Name: The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India (en Inglés)
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Author: Deb, Siddhartha
ISBN: 9780865478732

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Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Siddhartha Deb

Editorial

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.8 x 14.0 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0865478732

ISBN13

9780865478732

Categorías

Estudios regionales e internacionales
Sociología

The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India (en Inglés)

Siddhartha Deb (Autor) · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · Tapa Blanda

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Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter for The Guardian, working at a call center in Delhi in 2004, a time when globalization was fast proceeding and Thomas L. Friedman declared the world flat. Deb's experience interviewing the call-center staff led him to undertake this book and travel throughout the subcontinent. The Beautiful and the Damned examines India's many contradictions through various individual and extraordinary perspectives. With lyrical and commanding prose, Deb introduces the reader to an unforgettable group of Indians, including a Gatsby-like mogul in Delhi whose hobby is producing big-budget gangster films that no one sees; a wiry, dusty farmer named Gopeti whose village is plagued by suicides and was the epicenter of a riot; and a sad-eyed waitress named Esther who has set aside her dual degrees in biochemistry and botany to serve Coca-Cola to arms dealers at an upscale hotel called Shangri La. Like no other writer, Deb humanizes the post-globalization experience--its advantages, failures, and absurdities. India is a country where you take a nap and someone has stolen your job, where you buy a BMW but still have to idle for cows crossing your path. A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis in the same vein as Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family and V. S. Naipaul's India series, The Beautiful and the Damned is an important and incisive new work. The Beautiful and the Damned is a Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011.