Butter Chicken in Ludhiana

Travels in small town India

Pankaj Mishra (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2007
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-44412-5 (ISBN)

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Acutely observed and rendered with insight and biting wit, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana is a contemporary classic

A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra traveled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air; brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young woman from Jhansi aspiring to be a beauty queen; a rich young man in Gujarat speaking casually of murdering Muslims; Naxalites in Bihar trying to foment revolution; small shopkeepers planning a vacation in London - Mishra captured, with irony and humor, a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. '"Butter Chicken in Ludhiana" is a marvelous travel book about small-town India, where the village and the city, the folk and the kitsch, and the comic and the violent threaten to converge' - Ashis Nandy. 'A love-letter to the real republic. No other book defines as clearly, and with such troubled irony, our last decade of change' - Amitava Kumar.

Pankaj Mishra's books include The Romantics, which won the LA Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for fiction, Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire. He contributes political and literary essays to the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.1.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Gewicht	291 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	0-330-44412-3 / 0330444123
ISBN-13	978-0-330-44412-5 / 9780330444125
Zustand	Neuware