Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi - Couverture rigide

Dasgupta, Rana

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 085786002X ISBN 13 : 9780857860026

Editeur : Canongate Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

black cloth gilt to spine dust jacket 454 pp

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

At the turn of the twenty-first century, acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi with a single suitcase. He had no intention of staying for long. But the city beguiled him - he 'fell in love and in hate with it' - and fourteen years later, Delhi is still his home.

Fourteen years of break-neck change. The boom following the opening up of India's economy plunged Delhi into a tumult of destruction and creation: slums and markets were ripped down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. But the transformation was stern, abrupt and fantastically unequal, and it gave rise to strange and bewildering feelings. The city brimmed with ambition and rage. Bizarre crimes stole the headlines.

In Capital, we see Delhi through the eyes of its people. With the lyricism and empathy of a novelist, Dasgupta takes us through a series of encounters - with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts - which plunge us into Delhi's intoxicating, and sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation. Interweaving over a century of history with his personal journey, he presents us with the first literary portrait of one of the twenty-first century's fastest-growing megalopolises - a dark and uncanny portrait that gives us insights, too, as to the nature of our own - everyone's - shared, global future.

Revue de presse :

Lyrical and haunting (International New York Times)

Rana Dasgupta is the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation (SALMAN RUSHDIE)

[Dasgupta has] a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty (New Yorker)

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 (Time Out on TOKYO CANCELLED)

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 (Guardian on SOLO)

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

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 (Daily Mail on SOLO) --Daily Mail

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 085786002X
• ISBN 13: 9780857860026
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 512