The Heat and Dust Project: the Broke Couple's Guide to Bharat: The Broke Couple's Guide to Bharat - Couverture souple

Jha, Saurav; Roy, Devapriya

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9351367495 ISBN 13 : 9789351367499

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2015

Synopsis

Living in a sunny barsati in south Delhi, Saurav Jha and Devapriya Roy are your average DINK couple, about to acquire a few EMIs and come of age in the modern consumerist world. Only, they don't. They junk the swivel chairs, gain a couple of backpacks and set out on a transformational journey across India. On a very, very tight budget - 500 rupees a day for bed and board. And The Heat and Dust Project begins. Joining the ranks of firing gap-year kids and Israeli boys and girls fresh out of compulsory army service, they travel across a whecky, whimsical land, where five thousand years of Indian history seem to jostle side by side. It is, by turns, holy and hectic, thuggish and comic, amoral and endearing. In buses that hurtle through the darkness of the night and the heat of the day, across thousands of miles, in ever new places, the richness of this crowded palette spills over into their lives. From rooms-by-the-hour to strange dinner invitations and spectacular forts and tantrums, this is a tale of the hysterical searching of youth, of eccentric choices and the supreme test of marriage.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Roy began her career with The Vague Woman s Handbook, a quirky novel that was published by HarperCollins[1][2] in March 2011 and subsequently appeared on the India Today Bestseller List.[3] She has also authored The Weight Loss Club: The Curious Experiments of Nancy Housing Cooperative, yet another quirky novel that was published by Rupa & Co.[4] in July 2013. Currently she is working on the second book of the Vague Women series, tentatively titled The Vague Woman s Guide to Paris, as well as a travelogue, The Heat and Dust Project[5][6][7][8] (along with husband Saurav Jha), that chronicles the story of travelling through India on local buses on a very very tight budget . The Heat and Dust Project is also a first-of-its-kind dynamic book as the couple used Facebook to document their journey even as it was underway

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9351367495
• ISBN 13: 9789351367499
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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