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How to Kidnap the Rich de Rahul Raina

How to Kidnap the Rich

Autor Rahul Raina
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2021

Proza lui Rahul Raina lovește cu precizia unui bisturiu poleit. Stilul este alert, tăios, impregnat de un umor negru care nu iartă nimic. Ne-a atras atenția vocea lui Ramesh: cinic, sclipitor, produsul mahalalelor din Delhi. El înțelege un adevăr crud. În India, grăsimea înseamnă bogăție. Dacă ești sărac și gras, ești un mincinos. Ramesh vinde inteligență celor care au doar bani. El susține examene naționale în locul fiilor de milionari. Totul funcționează până când Rudi, clientul său naiv, devine accidental o celebritate națională. Urmează șantaj, dragoste neașteptată și o răpire care dă peste cap ierarhiile sociale. Subliniem ritmul frenetic al narațiunii. Este un galop prin praf, poluare și corupție. Ca și The White Tiger, acest roman explorează ascensiunea socială brutală, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai satirică și orientată spre acțiune pură. Merită menționat că, deși amintește de How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia prin titlul ce parodiază un manual de instrucțiuni, How to Kidnap the Rich abandonează introspecția pentru o aventură urbană explozivă. India prezentată aici nu este cea din broșurile turistice. Este o lume a contrastelor violente, unde supraviețuirea depinde de capacitatea de a negocia imposibilul. HBO a sesizat deja potențialul cinematic al acestei povești, asigurându-și drepturile de ecranizare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063028784
ISBN-10: 0063028786
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care savurează thrillere sociale cu un ritm amețitor. Veți descoperi o satiră mușcătoare despre corupție și dorința disperată de a evada din sărăcie. Este o lectură despre supraviețuire într-o lume unde moralitatea este un lux pe care doar cei bogați și-l pot permite. Câștigați o perspectivă onestă, deși brutală, asupra Indiei contemporane, totul sub forma unui joc periculos de-a șoarecele și pisica.

Despre autor

Rahul Raina este o voce nouă și provocatoare în literatura contemporană, împărțindu-și existența între Oxford și Delhi. Experiența sa personală este una de contrast: conduce o firmă de consultanță în Anglia, dar își dedică o parte din an muncii caritabile pentru copiii străzii din India, unde predă limba engleză. Această dublă perspectivă asupra privilegiului și privațiunii alimentează realismul și aciditatea debutului său literar, oferindu-i autorității necesare pentru a diseca structurile sociale complexe ale țării sale natale.

Descriere scurtă

“A raucous novel, narrated in deadpan voice-over by Ramesh, a self-described ‘lower lower middle class’ 24-year-old scammer. . . . His perspective is a delight. . . . a tartly entertaining novel, a potential summer blockbuster.” —New York Times Book Review
A fresh look at modern-day India hailed as "a monstrously funny and unpredictable wild ride" by Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy
The first kidnapping wasn’t my fault. The others—those were definitely me.
Brilliant yet poor, Ramesh Kumar grew up working at his father’s tea stall in the Old City of Delhi. Now, he makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India's elite—a situation that becomes complicated when one of his clients, the sweet but hapless eighteen-year-old Rudi Saxena, places first in the All Indias, the national university entrance exams, thanks to him.
Ramesh sees an opportunity—perhaps even an obligation—to cash in on Rudi’s newfound celebrity, not knowing that Rudi’s role on a game show will lead to unexpected love, followed by wild trouble when both young men are kidnapped. 
But Ramesh outwits the criminals who’ve abducted them, turning the tables and becoming a kidnapper himself. As he leads Rudi through a maze of crimes both large and small, their dizzying journey reveals an India in all its complexity, beauty, and squalor, moving from the bottom rungs to the circles inhabited by the ultra-rich and everywhere in between.
A caper, social satire, and love story rolled into one, How to Kidnap the Rich is a wild ride told by a mesmerizing new talent with an electric voice.

Recenzii

“A satirical state-of-the-nation debut, which slices into the soul of contemporary Indian society. . . . This is a cinematic caper—HBO already holds film rights—and though Raina is highlighting expired dreams and inequality, he is always perceptive and playful. . . . Social commentary meets standup comedy, as with a biting wit reminiscent of Binyavanga Wainaina’s essay “How to Write About Africa” or Paul Beatty’s Booker-winner The Sellout, Raina stretches stereotype and cliche into incisive satire.” — The Guardian
“A rollicking urban adventure and a biting satire of inequality. . . . a highly entertaining first novel from a writer to watch.” — The Economist
“Rahul Raina’s voice crackles with wit and the affecting exuberance of youth. His ripping good story grabs you on page one and doesn’t let go, taking you on a monstrously funny and unpredictable wild ride through a thousand different Delhis at top speed. How To Kidnap the Rich roars with brilliance, freshness and so much heart.”   — Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy and Sex and Vanity
“Wildly entertaining. . . . the story of a poor, young protagonist who makes a lucrative business out of taking academic exams for the sons of India’s elite, then finds himself in the middle of a kaleidoscopic, LOL-funny caper.” — Real Simple
“Fans of My Sister the Serial Killer, Parasite and Crazy Rich Asians will be enthralled by this riotous tale from the very first line. . . . A hugely entertaining and unique debut.” — Cosmopolitan UK
“A lively first novel . . . . Genuine feeling flows beneath the potty-mouthed satire. . . .Raina suggests life may be ‘a relentless parade of fear,’ but it is far better to laugh than cry.” — Times (UK), "This Month's Best Crime Novels"
“Raina’s debut novel lives up to its billing as a fun caper and social satire thanks to strong characterization, a fast-paced plot, and an eye for the ridiculous. His delicious skewering of the social mores of Delhi’s über-rich and clear-eyed rendering of India’s social hierarchy propel sheer entertainment into striking elucidation in the mode of Aravind Adiga.” — Booklist (starred review)
“A sparkling debut about a crooked college consultant and his inadvertent role in the making of a celebrity. . . . Readers will enjoy the ride.” — Publishers Weekly
“Rahul Raina’s debut could easily be called How to Kidnap the Reader, because he entraps you from the first page, and skillfully maintains his hold on you with a story that is equal parts hypnotizing, harrowing, and hilarious in the way it lays bare the costs that many have to pay in order to succeed. From the privileged to the impoverished, Raina renders his world’s nuances, complexities, and evident truths with surgical precision and so much damn heart.” — Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck
"Unlike his enterprising protagonist, Rahul Raina takes no prisoners. . . . A bold, lively, and scathing satire that refuses to flinch." — Daniel Nieh, author of Beijing Payback
“White Tiger meets Caddyshack the movie in Raina’s lively novel, brimming with rat-a-tat-tat wit, breezy prose and a keen observation of colorism, casteism and social inequity. Unputdownable!” — Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist
"Unflinching."  — Diksha Basu, author of Destination Wedding and The Windfall 
“Rahul Raina’s roistering, whip-smart and deliciously fun Delhi-set crime caper, How to Kidnap the Rich, is the first great state-of-the-subcontinent novel of the 21st century.” — The Bookseller (UK)
“I can't remember the last time I read such an assured debut. Raina writes like he's been doing this all his life. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to welcome a new star to the world of international crime fiction.” — Abir Mukherjee, author of A Rising Man
"Brutally funny and fast-paced, this debut from Rahul Raina proves he is a star in the making." — Nikesh Shukla, author of Coconut Unlimited

Notă biografică

Rahul Raina divides his time between Oxford and Delhi. He is twenty-eight years old and splits his time be-tween running a consultancy in England, and working for charities and teaching English in India. How to Kidnap the Rich, his first novel, was written in the hundred degree-plus heat of New Delhi.

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'Ramesh is a wonderfully vivid character and this is an explosively funny, surprisingly moving debut''Mail on Sunday

If you're fat and Indian, you're rich; if you're fat and poor, you're lying. It's only the West where the rich are thin and vegan and moral...

Ramesh Kumar grew up deprived and unloved, working on his father's tea stall in the Old City of Delhi. Now, brilliant but poor, he makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India's elite. When one of his clients, the sweet but hapless eighteen-year-old Rudi Saxena, places first in the All Indias, the national university entrance exams, Ramesh sees an unmissable opportunity.

Cashing in on Rudi's newfound celebrity, all goes well for both boys for a while. But Rudi's role on a game show leads to unexpected love, blackmail and, finally, a dangerous kidnapping.

As Ramesh leads Rudi through a maze of crimes both large and small, their dizzying journey reveals an India in all its complexity, beauty, and squalor, moving from the bottom rungs to the circles inhabited by the ultra-rich and everywhere in between.

Praise for How to Kidnap the Rich

'A satire on modern India...this isn't a story about poverty, it's a story about wealth' Guardian

'Conjures up a memorable world that is ghee-greased, polluted, mired in dust and corruption' Sunday Times

'Like Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, How to Kidnap the Rich purports to be a how-to manual but is in fact a rollicking urban adventure and a biting satire of inequality' Economist