Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi
Author(s): Rana Dasgupta
At the turn of the twenty-first century acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in the Indian capital with a single suitcase. He had no intention of staying for long. But the city beguiled him - he 'fell in love and in hate with it' - and, fourteen years later, Delhi has become his home. Capital tells the story of Delhi's journey from walled city to world city. It is a story of extreme wealth and power, of land grabs and a cityscape changed almost beyond recognition. Everything that was slow, intimate and idiosyncratic has become fast, vast and generic; every aspect of life has been affected - for the poor, the middle classes and the super-rich. Through a series of fascinating personal encounters Dasgupta takes us inside the intoxicating, sometimes terrifying transformation of India's fastest-growing megacity, offering an astonishing 'report from the global future'.
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* Review coverage in major newspapers including the Age, the Australian, the Daily Telegraph and the NZ Herald * Review coverage in magazines such as Big Issue, Melbourne Review, the Monthly and NZ Listener * Extract to be placed in a major Australian newspaper such as the Australian Financial Review * Interview on national ABC radio program * Online review coverage on sites such as the New Daily and the Guardian online * Shared advertising in current affairs publications such as the Monthly * Significant budget for bookseller catalogues * Banner advertising on bookseller websites * Feature title in Text newsletters and website * Strong social media campaign including paid targeted Facebook advertising
'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 'Fascinating...Solo is unforgettable in its humanity.' Guardian '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
General Fields
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- : Text Publishing Co
- : The Text Publishing Company
- : 01 March 2014
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : Australia
- : 01 April 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : 480
- : 414
- : Paperback
- : Rana Dasgupta
