Capital (eBook)

The Eruption of Delhi

Rana Dasgupta (Autor)

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2014
488 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-0-85786-891-6 (ISBN)

Infos

WINNER OF THE WINDHAM CAMPBELL PRIZE 2025WINNER OF THE PRIX EMILE GUIMET DE LITTERATURE ASIATIQUE 2017WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ETRANGER 2016In Capital, Rana Dasgupta reveals the red-hot city which erupted from Delhi's economic boom in the 1990s and 2000s. Slums were bulldozed, luxury shopping malls erected in their place. The outer transformation, stern and abrupt, reached beyond mortar and into minds. Hundreds of thousands streamed in from rural hinterlands, and the city brimmed with possibility.In this prescient account of the exultation and disparity that would emerge from India's globalisation, Rana Dasgupta shows us a city's rebirth - for better and worse - through the eyes of its people. Capital is a history, a warning and a looking glass. It is book for our times.

Autor

Rana Dasgupta won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book for his debut novel Solo. He is also the author of a collection of urban folktales, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Capital, his first work of non-fiction, has been shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2015. Born in Canterbury in 1971, he now lives in Delhi.

Rezensionen

Fascinating... Solo is utterly unforgettable in its humanity... the kind of "philharmonic" novel that reminds us why we will always need to tell the extraordinary stories of people's ordinary lives

Lyrical and haunting

Rana Dasgupta is the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation

This gloriously eccentric adventure through a century of Bulgarian history is so much fun to read you'll hardly realise how much you're learning... Weird, wonderful and warmly wise stuff

[Dasgupta has] a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty

Only the most gifted writers, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jonathan Safran-Foer, can hold the surreal and the real in satisfying equilibrium. This elite now welcomes Rana Dasgupta to its ranks

In this bewitching novel, Dasgupta updates the magic realism of the subcontinent, and brings it fully formed into a new century

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.3.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Amitav Ghosh • Begums, Thugs & White Mughals • behind the beautiful forevers • Between the World and Me • Books about delhi • books about india • City of Djinns • Delhi • Economics • From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium • history of india • India • Indian history • Indian politics • India Rising • Inequality • in xanadu • Katherine Boo • Maximum City • Modern India • Nine Lives • Oliver Balch • Political India • Return of a King • Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage • Salman Rushdie • Seketu Mehta • Solo • Solo Dasgupta • Suketu Mehta • sunjeev sahota • Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Age of Kali • The Last Mughal • tokyo cancelled • wealth disparity • White Mughals • William Dalrymple • Year of the Runaways
• ISBN-10: 0-85786-891-8 / 0857868918
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85786-891-6 / 9780857868916