The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young - Couverture rigide

Sengupta, Somini

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393071006 ISBN 13 : 9780393071009

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

The End of Karma brilliantly opens the door into the world of the striving young men and women of the new India as they try to shed India s past and invent their own future. Somini Sengupta s chosen characters are so vividly drawn and so sensitively reported. --Tina Brown"

The End of Karma is the essential beginning for any reader who wants to understand the future of the world s biggest democracy. With meticulously researched, grippingly told stories about youth in today s India, Sengupta s quest to understand her daughter s birthplace seized me like no other book coming from the country today. --Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found"

In fluent, conversational style, Somini Sengupta asks that burning question of contemporary India 'What happens to a dream deferred?' by looking at the trajectories of seven lives. The resulting book is compelling, moving, necessary and, above all, truthful. --Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others

"...remarkable new book..." --The Observer New Review

"[Somini Sengupta] interweaves data, first-hand accounts and archival research to great effect." --The Economist, Best Books of 2016

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility-at least by the illusion of possibility-as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The End of Karma is an exploration of this new India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a woman who becomes a Maoist rebel; a brother charged for the murder of his sister who had married the "wrong" man; and a woman who opposes her family and hopes to become a police officer. Driven by aspiration-and thwarted at every step by state and society-they are making new demands on India's democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Sengupta spotlights these stories of ordinary men and women, weaving together a groundbreaking portrait of a country in turmoil.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393071006
• ISBN 13: 9780393071009
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256