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Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
Rana Dasgupta
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Description for Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
Paperback. The transformation of Delhi into a twenty-first century metropolis is an intoxicating, at times terrifying story - that has repercussions for the future not only in India but everywhere Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JM; JHB; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 320.
'A terrific portrait of Delhi right now' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE WINNER OF THE PRIX EMILE GUIMET DE LITTERATURE ASIATIQUE 2017 WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ETRANGER 2016 When Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the twenty-first century, he had no intention of staying for long, but the city beguiled him - he 'fell in love and in hate with it' - and fifteen years later, Delhi is still his home. Over these fifteen years, he has watched as the tumult of destruction and creation which accompanies India's economic boom transformed the face of the city. In Capital, he explores the life-changing consequences for Delhi's people, meeting with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts. These encounters, interwoven with over a century of history, plunge us into Delhi's intoxicating, sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation - one that has repercussions not only for India, but for everybody's future.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857860040
SKU
V9780857860040
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Ref
99-26
About Rana Dasgupta
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.
Reviews for Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
A beautifully written portrait of a corrupt, violent and traumatised city growing so fast it is almost unrecognisable to its own inhabitants. An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE A terrific portrait of Delhi right now and hits a lot of nails on the head
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Vogue
Lyrical and haunting
International New York Times
Achingly beautiful . . . and cleverly tangential
Financial Times
Intense, lyrical, erudite and powerful
Observer
Important . . . His lyrical encounters with a wide range of modern Delhiites reveal a novelist's ear and are beautifully sketched
Telegraph
Dasgupta peels back the layers of denial with insight, humanity and beautiful writing. He exposes festering wounds buts succeeds in fascinating rather than repelling
The Times
A remarkable and exhaustive account
Independent
Personal, original and vivid
New Internationalist
A remarkably elegant work whose rich style and sweep often brings to mind V S Naipaul's A Million Mutinies Now
New Statesman
Dasgupta's combination of reportage, political critique and oral history is mordant rather than dyspeptic, sorrowful rather than castigatory. But what makes it more than a local study, what makes it so haunting, is that its textured, tart accounts of the privatisation of public space, of the incestuous relationship between the political and business classes, of the precarity that renders daily life so fraught all apply as much to Britain and the west as they do to the Indian capital
Guardian
Capital is constructed around a series of mesmerising interviews . . . Among many lively episodes in Dasgupta's appropriately large, sprawling and populous book is one describing the experience of driving in Delhi
Spectator
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
Dasgupta's eye is keen, and his sensitivity to small moments takes this extraordinary, tender book linger in the mind like a series of striking short stories. In Delhi, ruined, embattled, and alarmingly mutant, he sees the globalised city of the future
Prospect
His novelistic talents are matched by his skill at eliciting astonishing candor from his subjects . . . [Capital is] the most worthwhile in a strong field of recent books about India's free-market revolution and its unintended consequences
New Yorker
Dasgupta writes with poetic colour about a place that, despite all its failings, still manages to conjure a vibrancy that could make it one of the powerhouses of the century
Good Book Guide
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE A terrific portrait of Delhi right now and hits a lot of nails on the head
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Vogue
Lyrical and haunting
International New York Times
Achingly beautiful . . . and cleverly tangential
Financial Times
Intense, lyrical, erudite and powerful
Observer
Important . . . His lyrical encounters with a wide range of modern Delhiites reveal a novelist's ear and are beautifully sketched
Telegraph
Dasgupta peels back the layers of denial with insight, humanity and beautiful writing. He exposes festering wounds buts succeeds in fascinating rather than repelling
The Times
A remarkable and exhaustive account
Independent
Personal, original and vivid
New Internationalist
A remarkably elegant work whose rich style and sweep often brings to mind V S Naipaul's A Million Mutinies Now
New Statesman
Dasgupta's combination of reportage, political critique and oral history is mordant rather than dyspeptic, sorrowful rather than castigatory. But what makes it more than a local study, what makes it so haunting, is that its textured, tart accounts of the privatisation of public space, of the incestuous relationship between the political and business classes, of the precarity that renders daily life so fraught all apply as much to Britain and the west as they do to the Indian capital
Guardian
Capital is constructed around a series of mesmerising interviews . . . Among many lively episodes in Dasgupta's appropriately large, sprawling and populous book is one describing the experience of driving in Delhi
Spectator
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
Dasgupta's eye is keen, and his sensitivity to small moments takes this extraordinary, tender book linger in the mind like a series of striking short stories. In Delhi, ruined, embattled, and alarmingly mutant, he sees the globalised city of the future
Prospect
His novelistic talents are matched by his skill at eliciting astonishing candor from his subjects . . . [Capital is] the most worthwhile in a strong field of recent books about India's free-market revolution and its unintended consequences
New Yorker
Dasgupta writes with poetic colour about a place that, despite all its failings, still manages to conjure a vibrancy that could make it one of the powerhouses of the century
Good Book Guide