The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India

Name: The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India
Brand: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
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Author: Siddhartha Deb
ISBN: 9780143418962

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Siddhartha Deb

9780143418962

Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

English

tapa blanda

6/9/2012

268 pages

4 x 14 x 20 cm

181 g

Synopsis of The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India

«The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India» is Siddhartha Deb's essay of narrative journalism and cultural analysis, in paperback.

After returning to India in 2004, Siddhartha Deb travels across the country to understand the new reality. Through five stories (a call-center employee, an immigrant in a clandestine workshop), Deb portrays the promises of economic growth, the aspirations and the inequalities of the new India.

English edition of 268 pages published by Penguin Books India; winner of the PEN Open Book Award and finalist for the Orwell Prize.

For nonfiction readers interested in contemporary India, its social reality and the human impact of economic development.