by Shashi Tharoor · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483103135
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«Bollywood» is the contemporary fiction novel by Shashi Tharoor, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
A university student from a good family and a terrible actor, Ashok Banjara, triumphs against all odds as a star of Bombay cinema. The novel narrates his rise and the inner workings of the Indian industry: a portrait between grotesque and hyperrealist of contemporary India and its social and political contradictions.
Published in 2005 in the Andanzas collection by Tusquets, where it bears number 581. The work was originally published in 1991 under the title «Show Business».
For those who enjoy satirical novels about the world of cinema and Indian society.
