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India Calling

Autor Anand Giridharadas, Giridharadas Editat de Paul Golob
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2012

"[A] smart, evocative and sharply observed memoir . . . Giridharadas's narrative gusto makes the familiar fresh."-The Wall Street Journal

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, "We're all trying to go that way," pointing to the rear. "You, you're going this way?"Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom. But he was more interested in its cultural upheaval, as a new generation has sought to reconcile old traditions and customs with new ambitions and dreams.

In India Calling, he brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today, through the prism of his émigré family history and his childhood memories of India. He introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and religious seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families. Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to remain itself.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250001726
ISBN-10: 1250001722
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 141 x 207 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: St. Martin's Griffin

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""India Calling" is a fine book, elegant, self-aware and unafraid of contradictions and complexity. Giridharadas captures fundamental changes in the nature of family and class relationships and the very idea of what it means to be an Indian."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"[A] smart, evocative and sharply observed memoir . . . Giridharadas's narrative gusto makes the familiar fresh."--"The Wall Street Journal"
"[A] readable, intriguing book . . . [Giridharadas is] a marvelous journalist--intrepid, easy to like, curious . . . India Calling connects us to a new India, and an engaging new voice."--"The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)"
"A beautifully written, intelligent look at the cultural history and changes of India . . . The book [is] worth reading because of [Giridharadas's] skill as a writer . . . Giridharadas publishes sentences and paragraphs that are exquisitely worded, to the point of becoming downright memorable, and certainly quotable."--"Star Tribune (Minneapolis)""The moving story of an unexpected romance between a young American and a country he never knew was his to love."--"San Jose Mercury News"
"Capturing the monumental changes sweeping India is a feat many attempt but few manage . . . In "India Calling," Giridharadas has written the best of this now established genre . . . A finely observed portrait of the modern nation."--"Financial Times"
"Eloquent . . . [Giridharadas's] gritty and witty pen portraits of a host of Indian characters and places make a great read."--"Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia)"
"Warm, witty and highly perceptive . . . Where Naipaul's gaze was excoriating, almost half a century later, Giridharadas's scrutiny, though no less penetrating, is kinder and gentler. In this return of the native genre, "India Calling" is an honorable successor to Naipaul's classic ["An Area of Darkness"]."--"The Canberra Times"
"Giridharadas successfully uses his first-hand account of self-discovery to illustrate a larger picture o

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Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Giridharadas brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today.