Palaces of memory - Couverture rigide

Stuart, Freedman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1907893784 ISBN 13 : 9781907893780

Editeur : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

'The Palaces of Memory' is a journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafés which can be found in cities throughout the sub-continent. The Coffee Houses simultaneously speak of a Post-Independence optimism and a now-faded grandeur. Buried deep within the country's collective memory they have for decades acted simultaneously as political and artistic salons as well as simple eating places. Stuart Freedman has visited more than thirty of the most significant and beautiful Coffee Houses throughout India. Away from the stereotypes of poverty and exotica they have allowed him to enter an ordinary India, a familiar but distant echo of the long disappeared greasy-spoon cafés of the London of his own youth. In that sense, the Coffee Houses have become a familiar sanctuary for him during his time in India.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A photographer and writer, Freedman is based between London and New Delhi. A member of Panos Pictures, he has, over more than two decades, covered stories from Albania to Zambia and his work has featured internationally including in Life, Geo, Time, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, Paris Match, Smithsonian, Condé Nast Traveller. In his essay for the book he presents his experience of the coffee houses as well as providing a fascinating insight into their history. Born in India, Amit Chaudhuri has written numerous novels, short stories, poems and critical essays. He has won several major awards and has received international critical acclaim. In 2002 he was awarded India's highest literary honour, the Sahitya Akademi Award, for his novel 'A New World'. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907893784
• ISBN 13: 9781907893780
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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